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About The Community Police Forum
It is a partnership between the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the community, two entities with a single aim: to rid the area of crime. In terms of any partnership, both sides see that each is working honourably. That's the spirit of community policing forums. CPFs are statutory bodies, given strong powers in the 1993 interim constitution - including monitoring the effectiveness and efficiency of the SAPS, advising police on priorities in the neighbourhood and promoting the accountability of the SAPS to local communities.
CPFs were left out of the final constitution in 1996 but the 1995 Police Service Act refers back to the interim constitution, noting that the role of a CPF "may" include the functions listed therein.
A new set of regulations in terms of the Act, which deals with powers and responsibilities for all CPFs, is currently under review. Its preamble notes that the SAPS is accountable to the communities it serves; it adds that the Act provides for CPFs to promote communication and co-operation between the SAPS and communities and "to improve transparency and service delivery" in the SAPS.
It also refers to "the partnership and joint problem-solving between communities and the SAPS".