Minister at crime payback initiative / Northern Echo, 16th May 2007
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"HOME Office Minister Vernon Coaker met offenders, police and community beat officers on a tour of Stockton, where crime has fallen 14 per cent in the past year.
He spoke with offenders on the community payback scheme, who were removing graffiti in the Oxbridge area of the town, and went to the new Safer Stockton Partnership office, based in the town's police station."