POLICE have issued a warning to a man who had taken his partner and three young children to go quad bike riding in public fields off Park Road, Eccleshill, Bradford.

Plain clothes officers attended in an unmarked car, and spotted a small quad bike and a small off -road bike being used at the bottom of the road, where the fields back onto Ravenscliffe Estate.

They saw a man riding the bike on the grass land area, which had been churned up. They approached the man who was there with his three children and his female partner.

He was told the land was a public area used by dog walkers and residents, and the man claimed he thought it was a safe place to use the vehicles.

They were children's bikes but the man had been seen riding them around.

He was given a section 59 warning which allows officers to seize a vehicle if it, or the driver, are involved in anti-social behaviour during the following 12 months, and told to push the machines back to his address which was a short distance away.

PC David Hudson said: “We could clearly see that they seem to have been Christmas presents for the children but we also have to respect the wishes of the residents and preventing such use in this area.

"There is a time and a place for these to be used and this was not the right place.”