POLICE have swooped on the Colne Valley in the latest in a series of two-day high profile operations.
The focus on Slaithwaite continues today after starting early yesterday morning.
Officers are clamping down on anti-social behaviour and truancy with police in high visibility jackets swamping the area.
They are also raiding homes linked to drugs or crime.
One man from Golcar was arrested for drugs offences and six people have been arrested for failing to pay fines.
Court officers are also in the area knocking on doors and collecting fines from people who have failed to pay up.
The operation is called Kirklees Focus and police involved are urged to talk to local people to let them know how things can change if different organisations work together.
Kirklees departments are also involved, cleaning up graffiti grotspots and fly-tipped rubbish.
Graffiti has been cleaned next to Moonraker's Cafe, Crimble Bank and Cross Street along with the New Street car park.
Masses of litter has been cleared from the canal bank off Carr Lane and overgrown vegetation has been cut back on several footpaths.
Previous two-day clampdowns have targeted Golcar, Bradley, Brackenhall, Deighton and Riddings.
The main aims of the Focus are to:
* Reduce anti-social behaviour
* Cut reports of criminal damage by catching the offenders
* Target and arrest wanted suspects living in the area
* Clean-up the environment
* Cut crime and the fear of crime
* To achieve a reduction in the number of calls from the targeted area as a result of the co-ordinated campaign.
Officers were also targeting travelling criminals and were doing spot checks on dodgy-looking vehicles.
They were also out to catch people driving without insurance or in untaxed vehicles.
