LETTER: Primrose Community Police Forum is constantly threatened by prostitutes and pimps
The article, High court asked to confirm limits on community policing forum's powers, of March 20, refers. You published an article regarding Primrose Community Police Forum (CPF) patrollers/members assaulting sex workers. The CPF committee, as well as our South African Police Service (SAPS), CPF patrollers and community members were shocked and outraged at these false allegations made against us. As a reporter [for] a news publication, is it not your job to report facts and not fiction? We would like to make it clear that the Primrose CPF or Primrose SAPS were not contacted to give our side of the story. These sex workers all made out affidavits on the same morning regarding assaults and intimidation from the CPF, however, there have never been cases opened or made against any CPF members at any police station, ever. These ladies are committing illegal offences in a residential area in front of our houses and children and schools. Most of them are drug addicts and work with pimps w...
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