Minister Plato takes Community Safety Outreach to Garden Route

Tomorrow, Friday 20 March 2014, Western Cape Minister of Community Safety, Dan Plato, together with officials from the Department of Community Safety, will conduct Safety Outreach engagements in Plettenberg Bay and Knysna on the various safety partnerships available.

These engagements form part of a larger series of outreach events across the province to provide more information and the relevant requirements to communities, non-governmental organisations operating in the community as well as the religious fraternity operating in the area on how to successfully partner with the Department of Community Safety towards a safer community – Better Together.

The various engagements will include sessions on the:

• Northlink Bursary partnership;
• Chrysalis Academy;
• Youth Safety and Religious Partnership;
• Neighbourhood Watch; and the
• Community Policing Forums.

Minister Plato Said: “The outreach has a particular youth focus as we cannot allow a generation of youth to miss out on existing opportunities, both from the public and private sector, which will empower them to improve their own lives and the lives of their families”.

There will be an opportunity for photographs and interviews. (For background information on the youth focused initiatives, see accompanying document.)

Events tomorrow Friday 20 March 2014 and on Saturday 21 March 2014:

Northlink Bursary partnership & Chrysalis Academy session – Plettenberg Bay
Date: Friday, 20 March 2015
Time: 12:00 – 14:00
Venue: Kranshoek Community Hall, C/O Trekker & Scarlett Rose Street, Plettenberg Bay

Northlink Bursary partnership & Chrysalis Academy session – Knysna
Date: Friday, 20 March 2015
Time: 15:00 – 16:30
Venue: Khayalethu Community Hall, Khayalethu, Knysna

Police, Neighbourhood Watch (NHW) and Community Policing Forum (CPF) meeting
Date: Friday, 20 March 2015
Time: 17:00 – 18:00
Venue: Khayalethu Community Hall, Khayalethu, Knysna

Safety walkabout with Police, NHW and CPF
Date: Friday, 20 March 2015
Time: 19:30 – 21:30
Venue: tbc

Youth Safety and Religious Partnership, religious leader’s breakfast
Date: Saturday, 21 March 2015
Time: 08:30 – 11:00
Venue: Khayalethu Community Hall, Khayalethu, Knysna