Some 80 people living in two Utrecht province villages are about to get text messages from the police, because their contact information was found on the mobile phones of  two drugs dealers.

The 80 presumed clients, who live in the picturesque villages of Montfoort and Oudewater, will get a text message on Thursday night warning them that their details were found on drug dealers’ phones.

‘The aim is to disrupt both the demand and the supply side of the drugs market,’ Montfoort mayor Petra van Hartskamp-de Jong said in a statement.

The text message will also refer the recipient to a council website about the dangers of using drugs and contact information where they can seek help.

One of the dealers was picked in in Monfoort in May this year, the other in Oudewater in July. The council statement does not say what sort of drugs the dealers were selling.