Montagu’s reputation as one of the safest towns in the country was celebrated at a year-end function organised by the Community Police Forum (CPF) for the SAPS at the Kloof Padstal on 24 November, 2010.
Joined by members of the town’s leading civic organisations, the CPF arranged the social to pay tribute to the SAPS for their dedication and outstanding service to the community.

With a limited compliment of men and women, the Montagu’s SAPS covers an area of over 2 500 square kilometres, 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. Notwithstanding this challenge, residents throughout the area know that they can count on the police to respond to calls for help at all times of the day and night, and that the police will move swiftly to protect them and to enforce the law in a very professional manner.

In thanking the SAPS for their dedication, and the long hours they often have to work, CPF Chairman, Reverend Charl van Rensburg, paid tribute to the partnership that has been built between the SAPS, the Forum and the three Sub-Forums which have been established in Montagu to ensure that all sectors of the community are fully represented. This partnership he said could not be reflected more clearly than in the way in which business, the town’s civic organisations, and individuals from all sectors of the community had supported the evening’s social and the crime prevention projects which the CPF had organised and successfully implemented during the course of the year.