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SERIES: World Class Policing Awards 2019

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World Class Policing: Police Service of Northern Ireland’s innovative approach to public consultation

World Class Policing Awards 2019
SUBSCRIBE 26th May 2020

Keith Potter, Editor, Policing Insight

SPOTLIGHT ON THE WINNERS: An innovative public consultation process by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the Northern Ireland Policing Board (NIPB) was awarded Highly Commended in the World Class Policing Awards, sponsored by Accenture. In our final article on the award-winning nominations, Keith Potter takes a closer look at the online simulator which allowed community members the chance to control police budgets, allocate resources and gain a better understanding of the funding challenges.

Exeter Synagogue attack

World Class Policing: An exceptional policing, partnership and community response to terror attack on UK synagogue

World Class Policing Awards 2019
REGISTER 28th April 2020

Keith Potter, Editor, Policing Insight

SPOTLIGHT ON THE WINNERS: This police-led response to a terror attack on one of the UK’s oldest synagogues, which united a range of agencies and organisations to promote public reassurance and community cohesion, was awarded Highly Commended in the World Class Policing Awards, sponsored by Accenture. In the eleventh of twelve articles focusing on the award winning nominations, Keith Potter takes a closer look at this exceptional example of policing, partnership and community response.

First Drinks First Impressions

World Class Policing: ‘First Drinks: First Impressions’ – harm reduction through police engagement

World Class Policing Awards 2019
REGISTER 14th April 2020

Keith Potter, Editor, Policing Insight

SPOTLIGHT ON THE WINNERS: An innovative joint initiative between Australia’s Queensland Police Service and Griffith University to educate revellers about the dangers of excess alcohol was awarded Highly Commended in the World Class Policing Awards, sponsored by Accenture. In the tenth of twelve articles focusing on the award winning nominations, Keith Potter takes a closer look at this innovative approach to harm reduction through community engagement.

Op Stalker

World Class Policing: Operation Stalker by Dubai Police

World Class Policing Awards 2019
REGISTER 31st March 2020

Keith Potter, Editor, Policing Insight

SPOTLIGHT ON THE WINNERS: An operation led by Dubai Police’s Anti-Narcotics Unit, which smashed an international smuggling ring and led to the United Arab Emirates’ largest drugs seizure, was awarded Highly Commended in the World Class Policing Awards, sponsored by Accenture. In the ninth of twelve articles focusing on the award-winning nominations, Keith Potter takes a closer look at this innovative and collaborative operation.

World Class Policing: Operation Limelight – a multi-agency response to FGM led by the MPS

World Class Policing Awards 2019
REGISTER 17th March 2020

Keith Potter, Editor, Policing Insight

SPOTLIGHT ON THE WINNERS: Operation Limelight, a huge multi-agency operation led by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to prevent girls and young women from becoming victims of female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage, was awarded Highly Commended in the World Class Policing Awards, sponsored by Accenture. In the eighth of twelve articles focused on the award-winning nominations, Keith Potter examines the initiative which led to the signing of a historic intelligence-sharing Proclamation of Interagency Support for investigations between UK and US Law Enforcement.

Durham Community Peer Mentors

World Class Policing: The Durham Community Peer Mentor Project

World Class Policing Awards 2019
SUBSCRIBE 2nd March 2020

Keith Potter, Editor, Policing Insight

SPOTLIGHT ON THE WINNERS: The Durham Community Peer Mentor Project, which recruits volunteers to mentor 'high-impact' users of the emergency services, was awarded 'highly commended' at the recent inaugural World Class Policing Awards sponsored by Accenture. In the seventh of twelve articles focusing on the award-winning nominations, Keith Potter takes a closer look at this pioneering project.

World Class Policing: The Wiltshire Police-led response to the Novichok poisonings

World Class Policing Awards 2019
SUBSCRIBE 13th February 2020

Keith Potter, Editor, Policing Insight

SPOTLIGHT ON THE WINNERS: Wiltshire Police’s role in leading an extraordinary co-ordinated response to the unprecedented 2018 Novichok attacks in Salisbury and Amesbury was recognised as a winner at the recent inaugural World Class Policing Awards sponsored by Accenture. In the sixth of twelve articles focusing on the award-winning nominations, Keith Potter takes a closer look at an outstanding multi-agency operation.

Op Polarity

World Class Policing: Operation Polarity – cracking a global cyber attack

World Class Policing Awards 2019
SUBSCRIBE 5th February 2020

Keith Potter, Editor, Policing Insight

SPOTLIGHT ON THE WINNERS: A highly complex digital forensic investigation by a UK police team, which helped to crack a global cyber attack against thousands of targets including Sony’s Playstation network, was recognised as a winner at the recent inaugural World Class Policing Awards sponsored by Accenture. In the fifth of twelve articles focusing on the award-winning nominations, Keith Potter takes a closer look at Operation Polarity.

NZ Mobility

World Class Policing: New Zealand Police Mobility Programme equips officers for the future

World Class Policing Awards 2019
SUBSCRIBE 27th January 2020

Keith Potter, Editor, Policing Insight

SPOTLIGHT ON THE WINNERS: A force-wide initiative to equip officers with smartphones and develop apps that maximise the benefits of mobile working was recognised as a winner at the recent inaugural World Class Policing Awards sponsored by Accenture. In the fourth of twelve articles focusing on the award-winning nominations, Keith Potter takes a closer look at the New Zealand Police Mobility Programme.

World Class Policing: Operation Moonshot – Disrupting Criminals and Protecting Communities

World Class Policing Awards 2019
SUBSCRIBE 14th January 2020

Keith Potter, Editor, Policing Insight

SPOTLIGHT ON THE WINNERS: A UK policing initiative to disrupt and prevent crime by combining targeted intelligence with enhanced use of technology and specialist training was, after achieving significant successes across two county forces, recognised as a winner at the recent inaugural World Class Policing Awards sponsored by Accenture. In the third of 12 articles focusing on the award-winning nominations, Keith Potter takes a closer look at Operation Moonshot.

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World Class Policing: Queensland Police Service’s Tactical First Aid Project

World Class Policing Awards 2019
OPEN 7th January 2020

Keith Potter, Editor, Policing Insight

SPOTLIGHT ON THE WINNERS: A groundbreaking Australian Police medical initiative which equips officers to save lives and increase survival rates for those affected by traumatic injury was named a winner at the recent inaugural World Class Policing Awards sponsored by Accenture in London. In the second of 12 articles focusing on the award winning nominations, Keith Potter takes a closer look at the Tactical First Aid Project (TFAP).

Operation Encompass Feature

World Class Policing: Operation Encompass – supporting children exposed to domestic violence

World Class Policing Awards 2019
SUBSCRIBE 10th December 2019

Keith Potter, Editor, Policing Insight

SPOTLIGHT ON THE WINNERS: A scheme that helps support children exposed to domestic abuse scooped 'Overall Winner' at this year's World Class Policing Awards sponsored by Accenture. The awards aim to promote excellence in policing by sharing insight into the winning nominations. In the first of 12 articles focusing on the winning nominations, Policing Insight's Keith Potter takes a closer look at Operation Encompass.

World Class Policing Awards 2019: “Collaboration is the now and the future”

World Class Policing Awards 2019
REGISTER 18th November 2019

Jessica Russell, techUK

Opinion: Last week, the policing world came together to celebrate the best of policing at the World Class Policing Awards 2019. techUK's Justice and Emergency Services Programme Manager Jessica Russell reflects on the evening and the importance of collaboration.

Photo Gallery: The inaugural World Class Policing Awards 2019

World Class Policing Awards 2019
OPEN 15th November 2019

Policing Insight team

NEWS: PHOTO GALLERY: We are delighted to share pictures from a fantastic awards evening recognising and celebrating truly World Class Policing from the UK and around the world.

Congratulations! Devon and Cornwall Police take top spot at World Class Policing Awards!

World Class Policing Awards 2019
OPEN 15th November 2019

Policing Insight team

NEWS: Many congratulations to Devon and Cornwall Police's brilliant Operation Encompass which was chosen from a truly outstanding field of 54 finalists from police departments and forces from across the globe to be crowned overall winner at the inaugural World Class Policing Awards.

World Class Policing Awards: Final nine finalists announced!

World Class Policing Awards 2019
OPEN 29th October 2019

Tina Orr Munro - Contributing Editor, Policing Insight

NEWS: Each week, Policing Insight publishes details of the finalists in this year's World Class Policing Awards sponsored by Accenture. Once again, the fantastic nominees cover the gamut of policing from the huge, coordinated response to the poisonings in Salisbury, to an integrated anti-stalking unit and the use of video-game technology to create virtual training scenarios.

World Class Policing Awards: Week five finalists announced!

World Class Policing Awards 2019
OPEN 22nd October 2019

Tina Orr Munro - Contributing Editor, Policing Insight

NEWS: Each week, Policing Insight publishes details of the finalists in this year's World Class Policing Awards sponsored by Accenture. This week, the brilliant nominees include an operation that has led to the arrest of thousands of drug dealers, a first aid programme for frontline officers that has already saved 15 lives and a telematics fleet system that ensures optimal use of vehicles.

World Class Policing Awards: Week four finalists announced!

World Class Policing Awards 2019
OPEN 15th October 2019

Tina Orr Munro - Contributing Editor, Policing Insight

NEWS: Each week, Policing Insight publishes details of the finalists in this year's World Class Policing Awards sponsored by Accenture. This week, the brilliant nominees include an operation to foil an attempt to kill the UK Prime Minister, a project to better support children exposed to domestic abuse and a highly complex investigation that resulted in the conviction of a major organised crime group.

World Class Policing Awards: Nine more outstanding finalists published

World Class Policing Awards 2019
OPEN 8th October 2019

Tina Orr Munro - Contributing Editor, Policing Insight

FEATURE: Each week, Policing Insight is publishing details of the finalists in this year's World Class Policing Awards sponsored by Accenture. This week, our outstanding nominations include a mobile technology project that has freed up over half a million officer hours a year and an intelligence officer whose work targeting online child abuse has led to 270 arrests.

World Class Policing Awards: More details of the outstanding finalists published!

World Class Policing Awards 2019
OPEN 1st October 2019

Tina Orr Munro - Contributing Editor, Policing Insight

FEATURE: Each week, in the lead up to the inaugural World Class Policing Awards sponsored by Accenture in November, Policing Insight will be publishing details of the 54 finalists. This week, the outstanding nominations include a police cadet scheme for adults with learning difficulties, a new mobile fingerprint reader, a drink awareness project in Australia and many more.

Accenture becomes prime sponsor of the World Class Policing Awards

World Class Policing Awards 2019
OPEN 1st October 2019

Policing Insight team

ANNOUNCEMENT: The World Class Policing Awards are pleased to announce that Accenture have enhanced their support for the awards by becoming the lead sponsor of the inaugural 2019 event.

The final countdown: A focus on the finalists for the World Class Policing Awards

World Class Policing Awards 2019
OPEN 24th September 2019

Tina Orr Munro - Contributing Editor, Policing Insight

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 Policing Awards: Shortlisted nominations announced

World Class Policing Awards 2019
OPEN 10th September 2019

Policing Insight team

Announcement: Following rigorous judging of over 100 UK and overseas entries to the inaugural World Class Policing Awards, the shortlist of nominations has now been finalised! See if your force has made the final cut.

World Class Policing Awards: The nominations are in!

World Class Policing Awards 2019
OPEN 16th July 2019

Tina Orr Munro - Contributing Editor, Policing Insight

NEWS: The closing date for the inaugural World Class Policing Awards 2019 recognising excellence in policing has now passed and the organisers say they have been overwhelmed by the quality and diversity of the nominations.

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