Make a difference in your neighbourhood and join the CPF

On October 17 the Delville Community Policing Forum (CPF) Sector Three will embark on selecting a new executive committee to lead/manage the sector.

The meeting will be held at the NG Kerk’s community hall, situated on the corner of Elsburg Road and Delville Road South, in Delville at 5.45pm for 6pm.

Sector Three residents are urged to attend the meeting in their numbers.

It is important that the following members are elected: a chairman, vice-chairman, treasurer and vice-treasurer, secretary and vice-secretary and a public relations officer.

Renee Germishuisen, the chairman of the Germiston CPF, said, “It is vitally important that community members get involved within a group of people with one goal in mind, the intense passion to fight the crime monster that has invested itself within your area.

“This is the group that will be steering the Delville CPF with vigorous intensity.

“Together let us fight crime.”

Community members are invited to forward individuals’ names or volunteer for the above positions.

For more information email to cpfdelville@gmail.com or call 083 701 8908.

Members elected to the executive committee will be fingerprinted and screened by the SAPS.

q What becoming a member of a CPF entails:

There is a misconception that joining the Community Policing Forum (CPF) means that you will be expected to patrol streets late at night.

The CPF is more than just people who patrol the streets, so it will not be expected of you to be involved with the CPF on an operational level once you have joined, although it would be an advantage if you could.

You could opt to assist victims of crime, assist with fund-raising and promote the organisation, or join many of its other portfolios.

“It is about you sitting at your window and looking out there, where you have a bird’s-eye view of what is going on and being proactive in making a dent in crime,” said Pine Pienaar, public relations officer for the Germiston CPF.

q What you need to know about the CPF:

The CPF fulfils a vital role in society, in assisting law enforcement officials in the fight against crime and exists in terms of Section 18 of the SAPS Act, 1995.

The CPF falls under this SAPS Act and is an integral part of “Sector Policing”.

This legislated act recognises the CPF as the only recognised consultative forum designed to permit communities to make their policing concerns known to the police.

The Community Policing Forum has a constitution dictating rules, laws and effective structures, and is not a neighbourhood watch consisting of community members with no voice.

The CPFs are consultative forums designed to permit communities to make their policing concerns known to the police and to provide a vehicle for holding the police accountable to them.

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