The messages mark the beginning of a comprehensive multi-agency campaign aimed at reducing anti-social behaviour during the summer holidays across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

The police and community safety partnerships are sending eye-catching moving messages to the mobile phones of thousands of school pupils, before they break up for the summer holiday, reminding them to have a safe summer and to think carefully about their behaviour and the effect it might have on others.

It's part of the police and community safety partnerships 'safer summer' campaign designed to reduce incidents of noise, vandalism, graffiti and criminal damage which tend to rise during the summer holidays.

Youth initiatives officers have been giving presentations in schools to talk to young people about how high spirits can be perceived as anti-social behaviour.

Young people are also being encouraged to take part in summer activities offered by local authorities.

During the summer holiday police officers will be confiscating alcohol from teenagers under the age of 18 if they're caught drinking in the street and will be targeting known 'hot spot' areas. Regular visits will be made to pubs and off licenses to make sure they're complying with the law and extra public order patrols will be in place in towns with lively night time economies to avoid any increase in alcohol-related violent crime.

Also involved in the campaign is the youth offending service which will be encouraging young people to take part in local activities, primary care trusts which are offering safe drinking advice and the Leicestershire and Rutland Fire Brigade who are highlighting the dangers of arson.

Environmental action days are planned at locations across the three force areas and the police and partners will be tackling the misuse of mini-motos which are driven dangerously in public places.