The Department of Community safety and Transport management in conjunction with
Civilian Secretariat for Police Services recently held community safety
forum capacity building workshops at Madibeng Local Municipality Town hall.
The workshops form part of a structure meant to enhance seamless
multifaceted and inter-Sectorial governmental approach on safety and crime
prevention in communities. Amongst the officials who attended the workshops
was the Madibeng Local Municipality Acting MMC, Cllr Macdonia Masuku,
Department of Home Affairs, Brits Correctional services, Department of
Justice, Social Development, South African Police Services, Community
Policing Forums and others.
Director of Crime prevention and partnerships Florence Nchoe, briefly spoke
on the importance of capacity building workshops on community safety
forums( CSF) functions, integrated crime and violence presentation strategy
(ICVPS) implementations and community safety planning.
"The main purpose to establish the community safety forums is to ensure
that we implement the white paper on safety and security, which calls for
an integrated approach in the prevention of Crime and violence" said Nchoe.
" we also need to get all the departments and all the sectors of society
because it calls for the whole of government and society approach. This is
the part where need all sectors in the community on board in terms of
ensuring that at local level, in all the local municipalities we have the
community safety forums which will then look at local crime prevention
strategies, added Nchoe.