SAPS Woodstock – 93 Victoria Road, Woodstock
You must know who to contact when you are aware of suspicious behaviour; see a crime happening; or in emergencies.
These are the most important numbers:
- Station Commander: Colonel DD Matroos: 021 442 3101; 082 374 4916
- Visible Policing: 021 442 3124
- Detective Service: 021 486 2851
- Land line police station: 021 442 3100
Save these numbers in your cell phone; stick them on your fridge; and don’t forget to give them to your family and employees.
Please report all crime: the police need to know what is happening in your area, to be able to focus their efforts properly.
E-mail:
[email protected] (general Woodstock police station)
SAPS Woodstock welcomes the input from the community on all policing and crime related matters. If you have any questions, information, comments, complaints or suggestions, please contact any of the above SAPS members or members of the Woodstock Community Police Forum.
WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY POLICE FORUM
Woodstock has an active Community Policing Forum o cooperate between the Woodstock community and the South African Police Service (SAPS). For more information in the Woodstock CPF, please visit their website:
https://www.woodstockcpf.co.za/
What is a Community Police Forum?
A Community Police Forum (CPF) is a non-profit, community-based entity. The law requires that every police station has a CPF. The purpose of a CPF is to establish and maintain a partnership and co-operatoin between community and police; to improve transparency and accountability in the Police Service; and to make sure that SAPS can and will provide the service the community is entitled to.
All kinds of organisations and institutions such as schools, residents associations, businesses, ngo’s and religious institutions, can become members of a CPF.
The CPF develops yearly community safety plans, which identify priorities and needs for the area. These priorities and needs are set by the community, through the CPF, and form part of the local police station’s operational plan. A CPF may also plan and implement its own safety projects, and can apply to the provincial government for funding for these projects.
Woodstock Police Station also has a CPF, which works closely together with residents’ organisations and SAPS. One of the biggest goals of the Woodstock CPF currently is to promote communication between SAPS and the Woodstock, Salt River and Observatory Communities and to get those communities more involved in the fight against crime.
This committee meets on every first Tuesday of the month, 19:00, at Woodstock Police Station.
We welcome the input from the community on all policing and crime related matters. If you have any questions, information, comments, complaints or suggestions, please contact us at [email protected]
Victim Support Room & volunteers
A separate area of the Woodstock Police Station, the Victim Support Room, is staffed by volunteers from the community, who seek to empower victims and provide emotional support immediately after a crime and on a continuing basis as desired. The Room operates in cooperation with the police service and the Community Policing Forum.
Volunteers at the Woodstock SAPS Victim Support Room provide
- a shoulder to lean on and an ear to listen;
- help contacting family or friends;
- give guidance through symptoms of what one may feel as a result of the event;
- help explain the process that needs to be followed;
- help in communicating with the SAPS;
- give practical help to avoid further problems; and
- find referral to a professional counselling service if a traumatic response is profound.
The Victim Support Room plays a pivotal role in victim empowerment and support, but cannot function without volunteers. At the moment there is a serious shortage of people to help out and that’s why we would like to call on members of the community to volunteer their services and time, so that we are able to have a fully functioning Victim Support Room. We need you to support your community!!
If you would like to become a volunteer, please contact Colonel DD Matroos: 021 442 3101, or the SAPS Woodstock 021 442 3100.