The Western Cape Department of Police Oversight and Community Safety is the department of the Western Cape Government responsible for ensuring safety for all the people in the Western Cape province of South Africa 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 Western Cape province a safe place in which to live, work, learn, relax and move about.
The Department delivers the following broad range of services:
- Make Safety everyone’s responsibility by means of building partnerships, creating forums for promoting active citizenship in the field of community safety.
- Increases safety in communities by improving the performance of policing through effective oversight
- Elevates security measures to minimise security breaches in respect of theft and unauthorised access to Western Cape Government buildings
These services are delivered through the following programmes:
- Management Support
- Secretariat for Safety and Security
- Security Risk Management
Vision
Safe and cohesive communities.
Mission
In pursuit of community safety, the Department will promote professional policing through effective oversight as legislated, capacitate safety partnerships with communities and other stakeholders (whole-of-society) and promote safety in all public buildings and spaces.
Reporting Entities
Office Bearers/Management
| MEC: | Anroux Marais (Minister) (Democratic Alliance) |
| Head of Department: | n/a |
| CFO: | Moegamat Frizlar |
| Chief Directors: | – David Coetzee (Secretariat: Safety and Security) – Adv Y Pillay (Security Risk Management) |
| Directors: | – Amanda Dissel (Policy and Research) – G Lutz (Security Advisory Services) – Adv Han-Marie Marshall (Community Police Relations) – Ansaaf Mohamed (Strategic Services and Communication) – Bhekithemba Simelane (Monitoring and Evaluation) – Fred Watkins (Provincial Security Operations) |
| Communications Officers: | – Ishaam Davids (Head of Communications) – Chantell Hendricks |
Contact Details
The contact details of the Western Cape Department of Police Oversight and Community Safety are listed in the table below.
| Physical Address: | 35 Wale Street, 5th Floor, Cape Town, 8000 |
| Postal Address: | P.O. Box 5346, Cape Town, 8000 |
| Telephone: | – 021 483 8235 (Head of Office) – 021 483 9354 (Personal Assistant) – 021 483 6689 (Communications) |
| Fax: | 021 483 7216 |
| Email: | pocs.comms@westerncape.gov.za (General Enquiries) |
| Website: | www.westerncape.gov.za/community-safety |
