POLICE are urging owners of quad bikes to get them fitted with trackers.

After the £9,000 quad was taken from a garage in a rural location to the east of Skipton in the early hours of Tuesday, officers were quickly on the scene because the owner had been alerted by its tracker and had called 999.

Officers managed to track the bike down and it will undergo forensic examination.

North Yorkshire Police is urging all quad bike owners to consider fitting trackers, and to check other security measures, to give officers the best chance of recovering stolen property and bringing offenders to justice.

Police said a man in his 40s from Bradford was arrested on suspicion of burglary and taken into custody, while an investigation is ongoing to find the remaining suspects.