KINGSBRIDGE police officers have arrested four men on fraud charges after they took part in ‘Ringing the Changes’.

Kingsbridge Police posted on Facebook on Thursday that they were searching for a ‘blue Toyota Avensis, registration number FH55 CFD’ with ‘four Eastern European males, one has a false leg, another has gold teeth’.

On Friday morning, police descended on the car park at the top of Fore Street in Kingsbridge as the car was spotted.

Four men were arrested for fraud offences across Devon and Cornwall. Police apologised for blocking the car park entrance during the arrest.

‘Ringing the Changes’ is explained on the Police Scotland website as: ‘someone asking for a sum of cash to be changed into notes of a smaller denomination. While doing this they deliberately confuse staff so as to obtain more money than they originally handed over.’On Tuesday morning, Sgt Dave Green, Kingsbridge Police, said: ‘As a result of these arrests one man has been deported and three have been released on bail pending further enquiries about other offences in the area. ‘These arrests were a result of great observation by staff at Wray and Co Jewellers on Fore Street, who saw an individual behaving strangely and called 999. As a direct result of that we were able to make the arrests and possibly prevent further offences being carried out in the South Hams.’