13 September 2007
The Office of the Deputy Minister for Safety and Security Susan Shabangu and
South African Police Service (SAPS), Division Visible Policing and Gauteng
province are hosting an awareness campaign, to educate and inform communities
around Gauteng provinces about crime prevention and policing. The main
objective of the campaign is to increase community involvement in the fight
against crime.
The Division Visible Policing will use these campaigns to increase
participation in partnership policing initiatives like the community policing
for a, police reservists system and to support the execution of proactive and
visible policing in the targeted areas. Service delivery by the SAPS to women
and children will be a central theme for the campaign.
The Deputy Minister Safety and Security Susan Shabangu and a team of
stakeholders from provincial and local government, communities and the SAPS
will visit the following identified areas:
Activity plan
Date: 15 September 2007
Time: 9h00 to 13h00
Venue: Westenoria / Bekkersdal / Randfontein
Date: 16 September 2007
Time: 9h00 to 13h00
Venue: Tswaleneng Informal Settlement / Baragwanath Taxi Rank and South Gate
Mall
Date: 17 September 2007
Time: 11h00 to 15h00
Venue: Soshanguve and Mabopane Station
Date: 18 September 2007
Time: 11h00 to 15h00
Venue: Mamelodi / Eesterus / Denneboom and Silverton
Date: 19 September 2007
Time: 11h00 to 15h00
Venue: Laudium / Saulsville / Attridgeville / Pretoria West / Danville / Church
Square (Perfomance by Mzwakhe Mbuli and Solly Moholo)
Date: 20 September 2007
Time: 8h00 to 16h00
Venue: Pilditch Stadium (Press briefing for Open Day and performance by the
artists)
The campaign will move through the areas, using a bus with entertainers and
will stop to engage and entertain communities and hand our information
materials. The procession will stop at shopping malls, taxi ranks and police
station where the SAPS band and some of the choirs participating in the
Polmusca Festival from 20 to 22 September 2007, will perform.
The media and community members are cordially invited to attend the events
and raise crime issues pertaining to every identified jurisdiction. For free
print advertising, SAPS posters and pamphlets are available on request.
Tummi Golding
National spokesperson: Media Relations
Tel: 012 393 5490/1
Cell: 082 826 6181
Fax: 012 393 5525
E-mail: mediarelations@saps.org.za
Noxolo Kweza
National spokesperson: Deputy Minister
Tel: 012 393 2563
Cell: 082 300 5231
Fax: 012 393 2833
E-mail: kwezan@saps.org.za
Inspector Peter Mbelengwa
Visible Policing
Tel: 012 393 8424
Cell: 082 376 9134
Fax: 012 393 8011
E-mail: orscomm@saps.org.za
Issued by: South African Police Service
13 September 2007
