PIETER JAKOBUS GOUWS
Yes, there was a formal arrangement.  The farm watch basically should consist out of the police, the security forces, then the defence force as well as the farming community.  In general terms what happened was that it was a direct working relationship between the police and the local farmers and many of the farmers joined the police force also as these special, I don't know what the name is specifically, but they were sworn in as special Constables, something like that and they would do duty with the police and we tried to get police vehicles or policemen involved in all of our night duties because we didn't deal only with security, we caught a lot of people you know, stealing for instance copper wire or cattle or whatever it was.