Pembrokeshire's new envirocrime team has gone into action for the first time.

Following recent changes to the way the county council responds to dog fouling complaints and other environmental offences such as littering, dog wardens have been targeting Tenby.

Throughout May wardens and police community support officers have been patrolling the resort town, undertaking both enforcement action and education.

A fixed penalty ticket was served on one local resident, who had allowed their dog to foul without removing the mess.

Wardens also spoke to members of the public about the issue and visited the local junior school to talk to pupils.

Prior to the Tenby initiative, members of the team met with local county councillors and members of the town council to discuss problem areas.

"Early indications are that the scheme appears to have been successful," said Clr. Huw George, cabinet member for environmental and regulatory services.

"The team carried out a survey both before and after and found that in problem streets, dog fouling concerns had declined.

"However, to ensure that this decline is more permanent, we need to educate and persuade people so that they realise that dog fouling and other offences against the environment are just not acceptable."

The Tenby initiative is the first action in the council's new tough approach to tackling environmental crime.

It follows increasing concerns about the problem of dog mess across the county.

Instead of responding to every complaint individually, the dog warden service is now broadening the way people can report problems - including the use of the web.

All the information is then collated to build up a detailed map of the county's dog mess hotspots.

These hot spots will then be targeted by dog wardens and Police Community Support Officers.

Dog wardens can be contacted via the Customer Contact Centre on 01437 764551.