Staff from a Bradford company have turned crime fighters in their latest bid to help their community.

Loop customer management employees pounded the beat with police officers as they blitzed householders with crime prevention advice.

The ten volunteers launched their partnership with the police at Eccleshill police station and are expected to visit around 6,000 homes over a three-year period.

And they will be lending a hand with a new Home Office-backed property protection programme.

Residents are being encouraged to inscribe valuable property with a new chemical property marker.

The partnership is just the latest initiative by Loop's new charity task force to provide support for worthy causes.

Sergeant Carl Lovett said the volunteers were providing valuable help by advising residents on the value of marking their belongings.

"When we were looking for volunteers to help us with the scheme we knew we would find them at Loop," he said. "Never ones to shy away from their community responsibilities, our team have been strengthened by Loop and the planning and teamwork that has been established in what is a huge exercise."

All houses that are property marked will receive stickers to put on show to deter burglars.

The scheme has already seen successful in the areas targeted.

Each team, consisting of up to seven people, hope to target 40 to 50 homes each day.

Shelley Marchant, Loop customer management's communications executive, said: "Loop is on a quest to build relations and support organisations and causes that we really care about, as well as helping to raise our profile.

"The police project caught our attention as we really care about making Bradford a safer place to live and work, which matches our own corporate philosophy."

The company has participated in the Bradford Cares project and raised funds for meningitis sufferers at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital.