Department of Police Oversight and Community Safety: About Us | Western Cape Government

Department of Police Oversight and Community Safety: About Us

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Department of Community Safety
Contact Us:
Tel: 086 142 142
Fax: 021 483 7216
Email: Service@westerncape.gov.za

The Department of Police Oversight and Community Safety aims to increase safety for all the people in the Province by improving safety through effective oversight of policing, making safety everyone’s responsibility and optimising safety and security risk management.

The department’s work is underpinned by, amongst others, the Western Cape Community Safety Act (3 of 2013), and further rooted in Provincial Strategic Objective 5 (PSO5) “Increasing Safety”  -which aims to make every community in the province a safe place in which to live, work, learn, relax and move about.

  The Department delivers the following broad range of services:

  • Increases safety in communities by improving the performance of policing through effective oversight

  • Make Safety everyone's responsibility by means of building partnerships, creating forums for promoting active citizenship in the field of community safety.

  • Elevates security measures to minimise security breaches in respect of theft and unauthorised access to Western Cape Government buildings

  These services are delivered through four programmes: