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Say what! Some of the finalists who participated in the Parow Centre’s annual kids’ fashion show on stage at the finale on Saturday. From left are brothers Zechariah and Joshua Reddy (Parow Valley), Brooklyn Ismail (Elsies River), Simoné Gordon (Bishop Lavis), Shiloh Paulse (Ravens mead) and Charis Pasha (Matroosfontein). PHOTO: CARINA ROUX
GOODWOOD COMMUNITY POLICING FORUM: EXPOLICE RESERVIST ELECTED CHAIRPERSON
CPF gets new chair CARINA ROUX
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ohn Ross, an ex-police reservist and Goodwood resident for 17 years, was elected as the new Goodwood Community Policing Forum (CPF) chairperson at a meeting held on Monday 3 July. This follows after the early resignation of Lee Jepson in April after serving only six months. With the previous two chairpersons not serving the full term one might consider it to be a hot seat, but Ross says he’s going to give it his best shot. He says he has “always known the biggest problem in Goodwood is between the CPF
and the neighbourhood watches – there’s been a massive drift.” He quickly adds he doesn’t know, nor wants to know, all the details, but “there’s been bad-mouthing from both sides”. Ross, who grew up in Vredehoek, was a police reservist for 33 years – 22 years in Cape Town Central, eight years in the flying squad and his last two years in Goodwood. He had a hip replacement after a serious accident and retired as lieutenant colonel in 2012. He now works as a private investigator for a firm in Bellville and is also a soccer referee. Ross says he was living in Goodwood for
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about six years when he one day found a note in his letterbox about the local neighbourhood watch (NHW). He was not too optimistic at first. “When I worked in Cape Town we had a very radical NHW in the Bo-Kaap – we were always at loggerheads.” He went to the meeting and ended up joining the NHW. He admits that until recently he was unaware of the purpose of a CPF, but he has been reading up on the matter. A few weeks ago he was approached by the chairperson of the Ratepayers’ Association, Brian Lawson, who asked if he would be prepared to stand (for the position of chairperson of the CPF).
“I told him I know nothing about CPFs.” Ross says he attended some NHW meetings before, which turned into police-bashing sessions. “Being ex-police I can’t take that, but I understand their frustration. As police reservists we used to call them ‘weekend warriors’...but the commitment is there; they phone the police and they don’t (always) respond.” “I told Brian that I’ve stood on both sides of the table. I’ve been with the NHW and I’ve been with the police. I know the attitude of the police because I had that attitude. I was against the NHW; we looked down on them.” V To page 2.