AN appeal has been launched following the attempted theft of cars in a residential street in Bournemouth.

Dorset Police are investigating reports of a man trying car doors in Keswick Road in the early hours of Monday August 22.

Officers have released doorbell camera footage of a man they would like to identify.

In the video, a man in a baseball cap can be seen walking across a driveway and trying the door of a parked car at night.

He tries the passenger door of the car and then walks out of the driveway and down the road.

Anyone who recognises him is urged to contact Dorset Police at www.dorset.police.uk/contact or by calling 101, quoting occurrence number 55220136916.