The force made more than 40 arrests and handed out at least 12 cautions during Operation Cliveden, a month-long blitz against soliciting, anti-social behaviour, and vehicle crime, among other problems, which stretched from the city centre to New England.

With that big push now over, Inspector Dominic Human has asked residents to keep reporting their concerns.

His call followed a specific appeal made via an E-Cops e-mail bulletin to residents which urged them to go on logging incidents of soliciting.

Insp Human said: "We don't imagine for one minute that we have completely resolved the issues in such a short space of time, but we hope to use this success as a spur to go on disrupting these activities and to target the most prolific offenders, and to encourage the residents to work with us and support us by providing invaluable information and intelligence.

"We know these issues haven't gone away and want the public to be our eyes and ears and help us to continue to disrupt these offences."

Operation Cliveden, which ended about two weeks ago, saw police swoop on burglars and other repeat offenders in a wide-ranging effort to clean up the area.

Officers were brought in from other parts of the city to help, with some working undercover to tackle concerns raised by residents and act on the police's own intelligence.

Soliciting by prostitutes along with their clients and drug dealers in the Burghley Road area was given particular attention.

The arrests included one kerb crawler, one man who was breaking into a car, and four people caught red-handed in the middle of drug deals.

In addition, about 12 street cautions were issued to prostitutes.

The new E-Cops appeal from the city centre neighbourhood policing team asks residents to keep telling police about soliciting in particular.

And it urges them to note the time, date, and locations of incidents, the descriptions of people involved and their names if known, and any vehicle details, including registrations.

Insp Human said: "We are not patting ourselves on the back, but are saying the operation was a good start and we need to build on that success."

nCall 0845 456 4564, or e-mail ecops.centralcity@cambs.pnn.police. uk