Local government should work with CPFs and Area Community Police Boards to set priorities and objectives for the forum.

CPFs should work with local government by:

• Setting crime prevention strategies together and agreeing on how these will be carried out
• Assisting with developing targeted social crime prevention programmes
• Identifying flashpoints and crime patterns, and communicating these to local government and the saps, and participating in problem solving
• Mobilising and organising community-based campaigns and activities, and the resources that are needed to keep them going
• Facilitating regular attendance by local elected representatives at CPFs

The diagram on the next page shows how the relationship between local government, community police forums and the SAPS should work. Relationships also need to be built with various other government departments for example, the various provincial social services departments.