World Class Policing Awards: Shortlisted nominations announced

Read about the finalists here:

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The final countdown: A focus on the finalists for the World Class Policing Awards
From missing people to reducing offending to fulfilling potential in the work place and fast-tracking detectives – Policing Insight is delighted to publish a series of six weekly articles highlighting the 54 finalists for the inaugural World Class Policing Awards. We present the first nine in alphabetical order.

World Class Police Awards Judging Process

Nominations were submitted to an online portal by police forces themselves or by third parties. All nominations were required to have a ‘lead police force’ and be endorsed by the chief constable of that force. The judging panel then reviewed the submissions and scored the nominations out of ten with marks awarded for fulfilling the World Class Policing characteristics and for overall quality of the submission.

The shortlisted nominations all go forward to be represented at the awards ceremony and to be put forward for consideration by the judges when they select the overall winners.

The World Class Policing Awards judging panel

The World Class Policing Awards judging panel is comprised of experienced and expert representatives from across policing in the UK and overseas. They include:

• John Apter, Chair of the Police Federation for England & Wales
• Superintendent Danny Hatfield, Chief of Staff at Police Scotland
• Chief Superintendent Ian Wylie, Police Superintendents’ Association
• Rachel Tuffin, Director of Knowledge and Innovation at the College of Policing
• Ian Bell, CEO Police ICT Company
• Mark Evans OBE, Deputy Chief Executive: Service Delivery at New Zealand Police
• Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, Metropolitan Police Service
• John Azah, Kingston Race and Equality Council
• Ben Bradford, Institute for Global Cities at UCL
• Rick Muir, Director of the Police Foundation
• Allan Fairley, Chair of techUK’s Justice & Emergency Services Committee
• Stephen Kavanagh QPM, former Chief Constable of Essex Police and Chair of the World Class Policing Steering Group

Nomination categories

The nominations could represent one or more categories across the range of policing activity:

• Victim support including improvements in identification of vulnerability
• New system/technology implementation
• Outstanding or complex investigations
• Operations delivering difference
• Projects driving change
• Crime prevention reducing harm in communities (real or virtual)
• Business change to tackle new and emerging offences
• Training and development in a changing world
• Employee and officer welfare building sustainable policing

The overall winners will be selected regardless of category but special commendations by category will be awarded where appropriate.

Characteristics of a successful World Class Policing Awards nomination

As well as explaining and evidencing why they represented examples of World Class Policing, the nominations also had to demonstrate and evidence some or all of the characteristics of World Class Policing:

1. Did the activity demonstrate exceptional performance?
   – Efficiency
   – Effectiveness
   – Improving police legitimacy
   – Value for money
   – Successful outcomes set out and achieved

2. Did the activity demonstrate progressive policing?
   – Innovative strategy/tactics
   – A new system or technology developed
   – A new technique or practice
   – The activity and benefit can replicated by other organisations
   – Complexities that were overcome

3. Was the activity collaborative?
   – A team effort or an effort across multiple teams
   – Collaboration with another police force/agency
   – Local collaboration with other agencies
   – National collaboration with other agencies
   – International collaboration with other forces/agencies
   – Industry, academic or 3rd sector collaboration
   – How were strategic hurdles overcome?
   – Free up resource or demand reduction on non-police matters

4. Did the outcomes benefit the public/victims?
   – Crime prevention/reduction
   – Minimise risk or harm
   – Victim/witness welfare
   – Public engagement
   – Free up resource or demand reduction
   – Positive handling of diverse and vulnerable groups (young people, women, mentally infirm, BAME, LBGT+ etc)

5. Does the activity take into account officer/staff welfare?
   – Improved working conditions
   – Improved welfare or support
   – Improved skills through training and development
   – Improved job satisfaction
   – Improved inclusion or reduction of stigma
   – Positive handling of diverse and vulnerable officers and staff (women, mentally infirm, BAME, LBGT+ etc)

6. Does the activity benefit how suspects and offenders are handled for better outcomes?
   – Early intervention
   – Rehabilitation
   – Restorative justice
   – Reduce re-offending
   – Positive handling of diverse and vulnerable suspects and offenders (young people, women, mentally infirm, BAME, LBGT+ etc)

The judges awarded points for these characteristics and for the overall quality of the submission, producing an overall mark out of ten. Those nominations scoring seven or above were selected for the shortlist to be represented and recognised at the awards ceremony.

The six winners including an overall winner will be selected by the judging panel on a further in-person judging day. Further commendations by category will be awarded where appropriate.