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17 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: 17 September 2007
Time: 11h00 to 15h00
Venue: Soshanguve Transfer and Mabopane Station

Date: 18 September 2007
Time: 11h00 to 15h00
Venue: Mamelodi / Eersterus / Denneboom and Silverton

Date: 19 September 2007
Time: 11h00 to 15h00
Venue: Laudium / Saulsville / Atteridgeville / Pretoria West / Danville / Church Square (Performance 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: mediarealtions@saps.org.za

Noxolo Kweza
National spokesperson: Deputy Minister
Tel: 012 393 2563
Cell: 082 300 5231
Fax: 012 393 2833
E-mail: kweza@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
17 September 2007