The Beacon Valley Community Police Sub-forum held a Women’s Day lunch for 60 people at the Beacon Valley community centre on Wednesday August 9. At the event were Mitchell’s Plain Community Police Forum members, including their chairperson Abie Isaacs and Mitchell’s Plain police members. The Mitchell’s Plain Community Police Forum secretary Lynne Phillips read a poem and Mitchell’s Plain domestic violence co-ordinator Sergeant Esmeralda Jacobs spoke about the services available at the station. The chairperson of the Beacon Valley sub-forum Mike J-J Michaels thanked women for the role they played in society.