The police spokesman said parents also have a responsibility if they feel their children are dressing up as clowns.
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Whilst many people have been left in fear of spotting one of the terrifying clowns since the first reports began flooding in, a fear of clowns or coulrophobia, has been lifelong phobia for thousands of people in the UK.
The incidents continue to divide opinion across the country.
And people aren’t happy, threatening to harm any clown they see.
Here’s everything you need to know about the fad.
“If your child informs you retrospectively of an incident please also report this but by using the 101 number”.
However, it has not stopped the craze from spreading as far as Australia and New Zealand.
Cambridge police and businesses have issued warnings after the “clowning” craze, where pranksters dress up as creepy clowns and terrorise the public, finally spread to the city.
Not only that, but citizens in the area had several encounters with the clowns.
The fact that costumes have hit the shops in the past few week could explain the timing of the sightings.
The two boys ran a Facebook page under the names of “Flomo Clown”, “Shoota Cllown”, and “Kaleb Clown” and sent threats to high school students within their counties.
Two women dressed as clowns were arrested in MI last week after allegedly chasing and threatening two 14-year-old girls.
Clowns have been spotted in towns and cities across the United Kingdom in recent days, prompting police forces to issue similar warnings to the one made by Surrey Police today.
Where are they being seen?
The clown that was spotted at the Recreation Ground, in Stratford-upon-Avon, on Sunday night.
Luke, 21, took the picture outside shops on Shard End Crescent at 10.35pm, before fleeing.
“I have been a clown since before she was born, ” he said. “If you look at clowns facially what you tend to find is part of their face or feet are exaggerated, they have huge noses, scary mouths and wildfire hair”, he said. There is also the possibility that you could attempt to scare the wrong person and they could retaliate.
“When Kim Kardashian was robbed by people dressed in police uniform, people didn’t say “crazy policemen” robbed Kim Kardashian”.
“The last thing this state needs is for our policing resources to be wasted due to the people running around dressed up as clowns, intimidating and scaring members of our community”, he said.
One police force alone were called to 14 separate incidents in just 24 hours despite public arrest warnings by cops.
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“Still, she vocalised that she was really scared about it, and it’s all the talk of the playground”.
