Revellers at Glastonbury Festival this weekend will be advised about crime in four short films produced by the police.

Personal safety, tent theft, drugs and car crime, the main types of complaint during the event, are the subjects of the "light-hearted" documentaries.

Somerset police superintendent Adrian Coombs said that crime was down by 90 per cent since 2000 and they aimed to make the festival safer by cutting numbers of people affected by thefts of tents, cars and mobile phones, which would reduce county figures further.

"We have been trying to use methods which communicate with a younger audience to get our crime prevention messages across," he said.

"The dedicated police at Glastonbury website has been a huge success, with over 9,000 hits since it was launched in mid-May and we hope that these films will be yet another success for the site."

Students from the University of West of England (UWE) assisted in the making of the films by coming up with the concepts and writing the scripts with the police corporate communications unit and video unit.

Amateur actors from the UWE drama club acted in the productions, according to the BBC.