Cameras will be installed by a local authority to identify and prosecute "boy racers".

Leader of Dartford council Jeremy Kite met with a senior police officer yesterday to discuss ongoing street racing and dangerous driving at Crossways Boulevard, Greenhithe.

It comes after video footage emerged of drivers performing doughnuts and speeding around a roundabout in front of spectators – some of which had even brought deckchairs.

A convoy of modified vehicles was spotted whizzing up and down the busy stretch of dual carriageway two weeks ago and narrowly missing traffic.

Although responsibility for enforcement primarily lies with police, the council has offered to make available resources and expertise to deploy cameras to identify and prosecute drivers.

It has already authorised a public spaces protection order (PSPO) to clamp down on anti-social meets and placed its powers at the disposal of Kent Police.

But Cllr Kite says he wants to help the police go further by utilising the experience and equipment the council currently uses to tackle other serious environmental crimes.

The PSPO bans car cruising, wheel spins, racing and performing stunts, along with the recording of these types of activities but the council says only effective prosecutions and sanctions will stop the nuisance.

Cllr Kite added: "This persistent antisocial behaviour cannot go on. It is wrecking the lives of local people.

"This might primarily be an issue for the police but we need to work together to support them and use all the means at our disposal.

"The key to this is to identify vehicles and driving behaviour with sufficient accuracy to support a prosecution.

"As well as immediate sanctions, that opens the door to flagging the behaviour of policy holders to their motor insurers and others who may have no clue the vehicles are being driven anti-socially.

"We have done our bit by establishing a PSPO, but local people are desperate to see prosecutions and an end to this problem.

"This kind of driving is harmful and dangerous and needs to be stopped, installing this technology is another way the council can help police bring it to an end."

Frustrated residents in Greenhithe have previously said they are at their wits' end over noisy late night car meets they likened to a "knock-off Fast and Furious" set.

For more than five years neighbours have been plagued by dangerous street racing, where modified vehicles whiz up and down the dual carriageway at dangerous speeds.

Some meets are said to attracts hundreds of vehicles, often coming over the Dartford Bridge from Essex, with rallies running into the early hours.

Previously the Screwfix car park site was used as "a skidding range".

Last month the motorists were also seen setting up a new camp and performing stunts down the road at a Bluewater car park where a series of tyre marks were left behind.