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Appointment of  Deputy Director- crime prevention
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 MEDIA RELEASE
 TO: ALL MEDIA
 DATE: 26 JANUARY 2001

APPOINTMENT OF DEPUTY DIRECTOR - CRIME PREVENTION

The Secretariat for Safety and Liaison wishes to announce the appointment of Mr Simon John Meyer as Head of Crime Prevention for the 
department as from the 29 January 2001.

This appointment comes at a time when the department and SAPS are consolidating and strengthening their strategies to fight crime in the 
Eastern Cape. The main purpose of this position is to facilitate and develop provincial policy regarding crime prevention. The incumbents 
key functions will include: assessment and evaluation of aspects regarding the utilisation of resources, structures and levels of service 
delivery within SAPS and victim support centres; initiation and coordination of social crime prevention programmes; evaluating and 
supporting the social crime prevention programmes at local government level.

Mr Meyer has a legal back-ground coupled with a vast experience as a prosecutor in the Department of Justice. He joined the ICD 
(Independent Complaints Directorate) in 1999, a body established to investigate and oversee the investigation of complaints against SAPS as 
an Assistant Director of Complaints registry and Monitoring before joining our department.

The department is proud to be joined by Mr Meyers calibre and appeal to all crime prevention structures and stakeholders to work more 
closely with us at an integrated approach in fighting crime in the Eastern Cape.

Issued by the Communications Division

Enquiries: Fikile Black on 040-6092316 or 0823325568

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