In October 2018 the South African Police Service (SAPS) announced a new Community Policing Strategy and Community in Blue Policing Concept.  At its launch, National Commissioner Khehla Sitole said the strategy would ‘make history by changing the way we do policing’.  However, the strategy retains the SAPS sector policing model – a holistic, promising approach to community policing which has never been fully implemented. If successfully implemented, sector policing could significantly shift the way police approach their work and so help to make communities safer.