CSPS DG calls on communities to keep working with police to decrease crime

CAPE TOWN - Civil Secretariat of Police Service (CSPS) Director-General Thulani Sibuyi has called on communities to continue helping the police on the ground to decrease the high crime rate in the country.
 
Sibuyi met with community-based crime-fighting structures in Khayelitsha in Cape Town on Tuesday, amidst rising levels of violent crime in the city.
 
The community safety structures complained about the lack of resources and unsatisfactory conditions they work under.
 
They also raised concerns about the poor working relationship between them and the police, that is hindering crime-fighting efforts in their communities.
 
Sibuyi said the relationship needed to be strengthened as communities were the ears and the eyes of the police on the ground.
   
"You must be able to work with the communities because crime happens in communities and communities know better than most of us. So if your relationship with communities is not strengthened, you will not be able to play a preventative mechanism."