Police have arrested a man over a spate of alleged burglaries at schools in the Cardinia area over the past month.

Pakenham Police were patrolling the Officer area on Friday January 19, when they arrested a man during an alleged burglary at a primary school on Bridge Rd, about 4am.

Further inquiries linked the man to several other burglaries, including at a primary school on Tivendale Rd, Officer on the same day.

Investigators executed a search warrant at a home on Ash Crescent, Pakenham, on Monday afternoon (Jan. 22), where they seized tools believed to have been stolen during burglaries at an additional three schools in Berwick and Officer on January 18 and 19.

Police also seized items including a stand-up paddle board allegedly linking the man to a burglary at a camping store in Pakenham on January 3, as well as a camper trailer valued at $30,000, believed to have been stolen from Innovation Way, Pakenham on January 12.

The 40-year-old was charged with four counts of burglary and one count of theft.

He was remanded in custody to appear in Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, January 23.