IT seems a fierce tug of war game is being played between Amanda Green, former Kempton Park Community Police Forum (CPF) chairperson and the new executive committee members.

And the ultimate prize? A Facebook page.

Since the election of the new CPF executive committee last month, including a new chairperson, issues have been raised regarding the running of the page.

In the past few years, while Green was chairperson, she had been running the page herself as the only admin person and now refuses to hand over the page, which used to be the forum’s official page for some years.

According to the newly elected committee, Green had since stepped down as chairperson of the CPF at the sector 1 elections in June but is continuing to run the CPF page, which she is allegedly not allowed to.

Newly elected CPF secretary, Geraldine Jonker, speaking on behalf of the committee, said constitutionally Green was supposed to hand over all CPF related matters to the new committee. Green is also accused of running her own personal agenda on the page through various posts she has put up of a private company that is not related to the CPF.

“The Constitution of the Gauteng Provincial Community Police Board officially states that no member of the CPF is permitted to use the CPF emblem or logo for personal or private gain,” Jonker explained.

Green is accused of using the Facebook page to post information about her new venture, Emergency Assist, an organisation “dedicated to dispatching emergency services”.  On July 20, Green posted a video showing the Emergency Assist emblem on the CPF Facebook page.  The CPF logo has also been removed from the page.

Under the comments section, Green posted: “I am still very much part of KP (Kempton Park) CPF and even more throughout SA. Yes I do have a national business and have families throughout SA so let’s take the passion I have and share it. It does not cost anything.”

On July 22, she posted about the CPF page reaching 10 000 likes and about the business.

“Thank you to all members, we are now over 10 000. I would like to say thank you for your support over the past 12 years. It has and is my honour in serving my community. Only difference now is that I am a proud owner of Emergency Assist South Africa and we now carry our passion throughout South Africa.”

On July 9, Green posted on the page that although she remained a member of the Kemton CPF, she was no longer the chairperson.

In the post, Green goes on to list the social media pages and contact numbers for Emergency Assist and also briefly listed the new committee members.

Some of the comments posted by CPF members Lani van der Walt (deputy chairman of sector 1 CPF) and Andre Harmse (deputy secretary) were removed from the page. Van Der Walt and Harmse had questioned her on why she was not handing over the admin duties to the new committee, seeing she was no longer chairperson.

“One of the posts I wanted to publish on the Facebook page was announcing the new committee members. This post was never approved. We asked her why, but she never replied and instead our posts were never published,” Van Der Walt said.

Green chose not to comment when EXPRESS contacted her.

According to Jonker, the committee will have a meeting next week Thursday (August 6) with Kempton SAPS’ station commander, Brig Bertha Kgoroba, and a representative from the community safety department to deliberate over the matter. There, a decision will be made on the steps to be taken going forward.