CPF receives reflector jackets

SECUNDA – Community Policing Forum (CPF) members from various police stations in the Gert Sibande Region were given reflector jackets on 10 March at the Secunda Police Station.

Community Policing aims at achieving more effective crime control, reduce fears of crime, improve quality of life, improve police service and police legitimacy through a proactive reliance on community resources that seeks to change crime causing conditions.

It allows the police and the community to work closely together to solve problems and fear of crime, physical and social disorder and neighbourhood decay.

Objectives of the Community Policing is to establish a partnership between the police and the communities they serve to ensure effective protection of communities and a better quality of life, to ensure that the police address the primary needs of the community and are accountable to them, to enhance the quality of information available to the police resulting in the development of a proactive and problem-solving approach to crime and violence, to provide communities with a visible, accessible policing presence to enhance public confidence in the police and to deter criminals and aligning the values of the police organisation with those of a democratic South Africa, aiming at producing police officers who can interact sensitively with their communities and in a manner that respects local norms and values.

Maj Gen Wilson Kekana informed CPF members that these reflector jackets must be kept in a safe place, must be worn when necessary and they cannot be lent to anyone else.