Our Mission

To create and nurture an effective partnership and network between the Bellville Police Services and Bellville Community stakeholders that drives a synergy of crime prevention in a coordinated program to prevent, combat, and investigate crime, to maintain public order, to protect and secure the citizens and their property, and to uphold and enforce the law in Bellville.

What is a CPF

A Community Police Forum (CPF) means a forum established in terms of section 19(1) of the S.A.P. S. Act, Act 68 of 1995. A CPF is a group of people from different communities and police representatives who meet to discuss safety problems in their communities. A CPF also aims at ensuring police accountability, transparency and effectiveness in the community.

Who should be consulted and represented
in establishing a CPF?

Our country’s Constitution clearly stipulates that in order to establish a CPF a Station Commissioner shall, after consultation with the mayor or his/ her representative of the local Municipality: identify community based organisations and interested individuals from the community including representatives of all the groupings within the community, i.e. religions groups, youth groups political groups, sports clubs, schools and taxi associations. People who are not part of any group or organisation also have a right to be included.

It is also important that the police are well represented i.e. Head of Detective Unit, child unit, etc. The Station Commissioner should always be available at CPF meetings