Police reservists are volunteers from the community who have the same powers and duties as police while they are on duty. To be a police reservist you must not have a criminal record, and you must at least have passed matric.
At present there is no single emergency number in South Africa. You therefore need to dial different numbers for different government emergency services, unless you are in the City of Cape Town metropolitan area, which already has its own single emergency number (107).
The Cape Town Metropolitan Police (previously known as Cape Town City Police) was established on the 1st of December 2001 in terms of the South African Police Services Amendment Act 1998.
If you are the victim of crime you are likely to be traumatised.