Graffiti Tags

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Graffiti Tags

Lancashire Police in Preston and Lancaster are appealing for information after a large number of graffiti tags were reported around the city.

A graffiti ‘tag’, which is used to distinguish a graffiti artist’s work from another, is commonly seen around many cities. The Northern Division’s ‘Name the Tag’s scheme’, is run in union with Crimestoppers. Anyone who gives information about the ‘tag’s’, leading to a conviction may be eligible to claim a £100 reward.

The graffiti tags which have been reported in such areas as Lancashire Royal Grammar School, where left on the gates of the school between November 13th and November 15th. Also on November 15th a rear shutter door of a van, parked on Haylett Square, was sprayed with a graffiti tag.

This comes after only months before Preston Council had set up a new graffiti hotline to help clean up the city. An investment of £45,000 by the Council was made to provide a new graffiti cleaning van and a hotline that would enable the locals report any graffiti they had seen in there neighbourhood.

The councils aim was to help clean up Preston, helping to improve the look of the local neighbourhoods.

Preston is like many other cities and towns, where graffiti seems to have a real impact on the community and how the locals feel about the way graffiti makes there city look.