OFFICERS who form the Met Police's transport operational command unit are looking for help from readers to identify pictures of young people captured by CCTV cameras on board vandalised buses.

The command unit is part of Operation BusTag, a collaboration between the Met Police, Transport for London and the bus companies to try and combat vandalism on London's buses.

Identifying the people in the photographs is a vital part of the operation and BusTag has enlisted the help of News Shopper's award-winning Shop A Yob campaign because it has been so successful in putting names to the faces captured on CCTV.

If you recognise any of the young people in these pictures, call Operation BusTag on 020 7027 8950 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.

Police would like to talk to the two teenagers in pictures 5065A and B. They were travelling on the Thamesmead to Peckham 177 route on March 7 when the bus windows were etched.

They got on at the boiler house in Carlyle Road, Thamesmead, at 5.46pm and got off in Plumstead High Street seven minutes later.

The youth in picture 5715 was on a 96 bus on its way from Bluewater to Woolwich on March 15 when it was covered in graffiti.

He got on the bus at Welling Corner at 2.47pm and got off again in Plumstead High Street at 2.58pm.

There was graffiti on the window of a 53 bus after the teenager in picture 5175 got off.

The Plumstead to Whitehall bus was at the stop in Orchard Close, Plumstead, on March 15 at 8.32pm when he got on.

He got off again four minutes later in Warwick Terrace, Plumstead.

After the boy in picture 5760 got off a 177 bus travelling from Woolwich to Bluewater on April 28, graffiti was discovered on the bus panels.

He was got on the bus in Crossway, Thamesmead, at 10.41am and got off two minutes later.