Graffiti blow
October 26, 2006 12:00am

AT last someone is taking seriously the activities of vandals who deface our city by ego-tripping with paint cans.

Police have arrested a man they allege is a notorious graffiti vandal whose activities, they claim, have caused $100,000 of damage. The man faces 74 charges.

A court must decide his guilt or innocence but the community will applaud the fact that the police have put so much effort into his identification and arrest.

Detectives from the transit safety division have had the man under surveillance for three months.

This was no plodding pursuit, but a hi-tech investigation in which a police team used a graffiti data base and an intelligence analyst who specialises in graffiti tag identification.

Steve Beardon of Residents Against Graffiti Everywhere said: "I think that's the tip of the iceberg and well done by police."

Let's have more of it.