Dubbo City councillor Ben Shields is calling on authorities to offer a reward to catch those responsible for slashing the tyres of Dubbo residents in the hope someone might dob them in.
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Cr Shields estimated that hundreds of tyres had been destroyed since the attacks began in South Dubbo in late 2014.
He said there was outrage amongst the community that the perpetrator had gone unpunished and was costing residents hundreds of dollars in repairs.
Cr Shields first raised the issue at the monthly council meeting on Monday night.
"I said I would bring it into council and use this forum to try and do something about the amount of tyre slashing going on in Dubbo, especially South Dubbo," he said.
"It would not be an exaggeration to say it is numbering in the hundreds now of people having their tyres slashed and it's not happening once or twice but people are having their tyres slashed three or four times.
"It is getting out of hand and I thought I would raise the suggestion publically that maybe we should starting looking at giving the idea to police, state government, people who are in charge of law enforcement of offering a reward for any information that leads to conviction."
Cr Shields said people needed to be given an incentive to provide information to police, because it may be their best chance to catch the offender.
"Police are talking about increasing the number of patrols but offering a reward may encourage someone to come forward," he said.
"I can't imagine that this person would not be bragging to his mates about it going on and someone might decide to hand him over.
"It's getting out of hand and people are getting cranky, it worries me that people may take the law into their own hands and if they do that they might beat the 'you know what out' of him.
"It's better that police catch him before anyone else."
Tyreright manager Rees Kelly said he'd had four or five customers in the past couple of months with slashed tyres. He said some of them had come back two or three times because more of their tyres had been slashed.
"We've fitted new ones for them only for them to come back because it has happened again. It is an expensive thing to have happen," Mr Kelly said.
Robertson's Tyrepower owner, Max Robertson, said he had also had a significant number of people coming in with slashed tyres. He didn't want to estimate the number but said they all came in with the same sort of puncture in the side wall of the tyre.
The location of the slash makes it impossible to repair the tyre.
