Food for you! PC Steve Scott-Haynes with PCSOs Esther Butcher, Lorraine Hughes and Andrew Powell promote the fast food event. Picture: LOUISE MORRIS (53800-3)
Canny crime-stoppers hope to entice youths into spilling the beans - by giving them burgers.
Teenagers in part of Colchester are being offered a free fast-food meal when they drop by a mobile burger joint today.
The multiagency scheme is designed to get teenagers to chip in with ideas on what facilities they think should be available in the area.
It comes after residents reported a host of antisocial problems.The wagon, which is being paid for by the council, will be on the green in front of Maple Way at the end of King George Road between 7pm and 9pm today.
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