Police manned road checks at Bullionfield and Gourdie Croft throughout the day, assisted by officials from the vehicle inspectorate and Customs and Excise.

The aim of Operation Bandit is to detect travelling criminals and illegal drivers, as well as dangerous and stolen vehicles and any other crimes that come to light.

Sergeant Wilson Gove told the Tele they had had immediate results.

“It’s a high-profile, intensive operation which builds on the work we do day in and day out, and already today it has been fairly busy,” he said.

“By mid-morning, we had seized one vehicle because of no insurance and three commercial vehicles have been issued with prohibitions.”

Prohibitions putting vehicles off the road can be issued because of defects on the vehicles or because drivers have exceeded the amount of hours they are allowed to spend behind the wheel.

Operation Bandit, which continues in Perth and Kinross tomorrow, has also received assistance from the Officials from Motor Insurance Bureau and trunk road body Bear Scotland.

“Over the three days of Bandit we will be looking for things like vehicles being used without the correct documentation, whether that be insurance or driving licence offences.

“We are looking at travelling criminals using the roads, and making use of Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras to identify vehicles.”

ANPR cameras have the ability to check up to 3600 number plates an hour, including any vehicles that are travelling at excessive speeds, and highlight any vehicles that require the attention of officers.