While intersections and signs across Bainbridge Island have been splashed with white and blue paint over the last two weeks, vandalism reached a new level Wendesday morning.

Sometime between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. vandals dumped and sprayed paint on eight Bainbridge Police vehicles parked at the station on Winslow Way. Tires were also slashed on several of the vehicles.

Deputy Police Chief Mark Duncan said it appeared spray paint as well as buckets of paint and paint brushes had been used.

Officers spent much of Wednesday the day shuttling the damaged patrol cars and SUVs to auto body shops for repair. An initial estimate put damage at $12,000.

Duncan said the crimes were still under investigation and that police are following several leads.

Though one vehicle had “08” painted on its windows, Duncan said police are still determining whether crimes at the station are related to the recent spree of vandalism attributed to high school seniors.

“The timing is suspicious, I’ll say that much,” Duncan said.

In fact, Duncan said the two on-duty officers were patrolling for vandals elsewhere on the island when the crimes occurred at the station early Wednesday.

No one was on duty inside the police building at the time of the crimes. The station’s parking lot has no security fence or cameras.

Bainbridge Police have a fleet of 27 vehicles, but most are parked at officers’ homes at night.