POLICE have backed the Telegraph & Argus Stop The Danger Drivers campaign - and revealed they are drawing up a list of hotspot areas for dangerous driving incidents.

Superintendent Damien Miller said officers in Bradford are currently gathering intelligence on which parts of the district have the most anti-social motorists.

Within the coming weeks, teams will target those areas and aim to catch the culprits in the act.

"We knew that there were issues there," said Supt Miller. "The concern in Bradford has always been that the driving is poor.

"The public's backing of the Telegraph and Argus campaign has really ignited it for us. We want to use that to help us take action.

"We want to make the roads in Bradford a safer place."

He added: "We don't want people to think it is acceptable for people to drive below acceptable standards.

"The intelligence work is on-going to look at all areas that look like a dangerous driving hotspot, taking into account all reports from the public and incidents we deal with.

"The results of that intelligence work will dictate what action we take. Once we have identified these areas, we are looking at all the powers available to us, and providing visibility within these areas through traffic officers and neighbourhood policing officers.

"It is about getting in there and working with partnership agencies to deal with the issues.

"We want to tell people what we are doing, to show that we are taking action. We are looking at details of uninsured vehicles in Bradford, and untaxed vehicles as well as paperless taxing has seen that shoot through the roof.

"We want people to present us with the evidence and we will work to take these vehicles off the road."

He added: "It is about raising the profile of the work we have been undertaking. It encourages more members of the public to contact us and report issues. We need to know about the people behind it and what vehicles they are driving so we can get them."

On the district's problems with dangerous driving, and who the culprits could be, Supt Miller said: "It is an issue within Bradford and we know it is. The communities, the people we serve, want us to do something about it.

"We need to be more visual and active with the action we take."

He added: "It is a broad range. Older people are not wearing seatbelts or are using mobile phones, and younger people do that as well. And speeding is a broad range of individuals. It is a wide age range and a wide demographic in terms of bad driving."

Supt Miller also hinted that a reporting hotline was in the pipeline for anyone who wanted to report incidents of dangerous driving. He was responsible for the birth of the anti-social behaviour bike team that has so far snared more than 300 illegal motorcycles and quad bikes since being set up in July 2014.

"I set up the anti-social behaviour bike team because of calls from the public about an issue that needed addressing more," said Supt Miller.

The bike team has a specific phone number for people to call, something Supt Miller is looking into for dangerous drivers.

"We want to look at that," he said. "To look at a phone line used to report incidents and to look at ways members of the public can come forward and contact us - like Dob in a Danger Driver."

He added: "We are looking at taking vehicles off the offenders, as well as prosecuting the individual. Taking them away and crushing them is one less vehicle on the roads.

"There needs to be some consequences for people's actions.

"The main thing for us is making Bradford's roads a safer place for everyone."

Roads policing officer Sergeant Richard Lyon said the Force was starting to see positive results regarding seizure powers under Section 59 of the Police Reform Act 2002.

"This legislation gives police powers to seize vehicles where its driver has been previously warned regarding their conduct under this act within the last 12 months and again has been driving in a manner which contravenes either Section Three of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (careless or inconsiderate driving) or Section 34 of Road Traffic Act 1988 (driven elsewhere other than a road).

"This is almost like an ASBO for bad driving and it's a very useful tool."