The AIMS AND OBJECTIVES of the CPF are to establish and maintain a partnership between the community and SAPS; promote communication between SAPS and the community; promote co-operation between SAPS and the community in fulfilling the needs of the community regarding policing; improve the rendering of Police Services to the community at National, Provincial, Cluster and Local Levels; promote trans
parency and accountability of the Service to the community; and promote joint problem-identification and solving with SAPS and the community. It will promote co-operation between the South African Police Service, the Local Community, other Law Enforcement Agencies, Community Safety Structures, Victim Support Structures, Community-based Organizations and Institutions and the Municipal Police Service. It will mobilise the community and organisations within the community to join the Forums, Sub-Forums, Community Safety Structures and Victim Support Structures to assist with the initiation and co-ordination of social crime prevention programmes and projects in conjunction with SAPS, other State Departments, Law Enforcement Agencies, Municipal Police Service and other CPF Structures, Futhermore, it will request the Service to account on the achievement of their objectives in terms of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa.
