About Us

The Community Watch Forum of Liberia (CWF-L), Inc. is a registered, non-governmental, non-political, and non-profit civil society organization operating within the fifteen (15) counties in Liberia. The CWF-L was established as a community policing forum (CPF) with the help of the United Nations Missions in Liberia (UNMIL)/United Nations Police in Liberia (UNPOL) and the Liberia National Police (LNP) in 2004 and formally organized in 2010 and accredited by the Government of Liberia (GOL) to buttress the efforts of national security through human security. Some of such human security are community policing, anti-trafficking awareness, anti-gender-base-awareness, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), promotion of human rights, and observance of rule of law awareness including other conflict transformation programs for peace and security. Since its establishment, the CWF-L has organized operational structures in all the counties and districts within the Republic of Liberia working in partnership with the Ministry of Labor (MOL) through Trafficking in Person (TIP)-Awareness, Ministry of Justice (MOJ) through ADR, LNP through community policing, Liberia Immigration Service (LIS) through identification of illegal foreign entrants, Drugs Enforcement Agency (DEA) through anti-drug awareness, Traditional leaders, local government, community-based organizations and other civil society organizations including community leaders as well as National Elections Commission across Liberia.  Over six hundred thousand CWF-L’s members across Liberia are proactively working through monitoring, reporting and early warning, and early response including community policing methodology for the prevention of crime and violence as well as the promotion of security and peace in Liberians.