{"id":918144,"date":"2022-01-20T21:43:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T21:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/20\/bishop-lavis-police-lose-soccer-match-to-residents-but-instead-win-over-communitys-support\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T21:43:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T21:43:01","slug":"bishop-lavis-police-lose-soccer-match-to-residents-but-instead-win-over-communitys-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/bishop-lavis-police-lose-soccer-match-to-residents-but-instead-win-over-communitys-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Lavis police lose soccer match to residents, but instead win over community's support"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cape Town – Residents from the V-block area in Bonteheuwel say they are encouraged by amends being made with the community by Bishop Lavis police seeking to improve and strengthen their otherwise strained relationship.<\/p>\n

This follows a soccer match between the residents of Vyeboom, Yellowood and Vlamboom streets and police aiming to integrate them into the community. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While the police lost the match on a penalty shoot-out, the residents believed they regained the confidence to fight crime together with the community.<\/p>\n

Bonteheuwel Community Development Outreach committee member Abdullah Stein said for the first time in over a year the residents came out to watch a match on a playground that had been hijacked by gangsters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe residents came out of their houses in numbers as they were locked inside for a long time. We organised this soccer game so that the police could win back the lost trust and faith of the community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe Bishop Lavis station commander assured the community that this was not the last soccer game and assured the community of constant police visibility from now onwards,\u201d said Stein.<\/p>\n

There were concerns of poor service delivery raised by the Bishop Lavis Community Police Forum. Graham Lindhorst, of the Bonteheuwel Community<\/p>\n

Service Centre, said they met the station commander on this and a decision was made to establish a Service Delivery Committee (SDC) to look at service delivery matters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lindhorst said the CPF would be part of the SDC and that the committee would meet on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe SDC will meet with the members that are on the complaints vehicles as well as the members in the Community Service Centres on day shift, including the shift commander.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this meeting, a report will be presented and discuss 101 complaints received the previous week, notwithstanding the investigation and or disciplinary process to follow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe CPF is afforded an opportunity to give input on the need to give good service, ultimately leading to better relationships between SAPS and the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe view this intervention as positive as well as important towards better service delivery. The CPF further extends gratitude to the community for coming out and shining a light on poor service delivery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Lindhorst further encouraged the community not to allow poor service at the police station and called on residents to report this immediately to the station commander.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cape Town – Residents from the V-block area in Bonteheuwel say they are encouraged by amends being made with the community by Bishop Lavis police seeking to improve and strengthen their otherwise strained relationship. This follows a soccer match between the residents of Vyeboom, Yellowood and Vlamboom streets and police aiming to integrate them into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}