Winners and finalists for Airwave Police Professional 2008 are shown below.
The organisers are grateful for the support of the following sponsors:
Airwave
Overall sponsor of the Police Professional Awards
We designed, built and now operate one of the world’s largest public safety networks – the Airwave service, with more than 200,000 emergency service users.
Innovation is something that’s very close to our hearts, as it’s precisely what we continue to deliver to police forces and our other customers throughout Great Britain.
For example, in addition to immediate, secure, high quality digital voice communications, police forces can now take advantage of our fully managed mobile data solutions. These solutions effectively increase the visibility of patrolling officers, by enabling them to spend less time at the station and more time on the beat.
By the same token, our mobile data solutions enable police forces to minimise paperwork and associated costs, reducing call pressure on control room staff and support nationally recognised quality and performance targets.
In addition to the police, our truly diverse, fast-growing customer base embraces more than 200 different public safety organisations, including fire and rescue services, ambulance services, the armed forces, Highways Agency, Prison Service, utility companies, local government, CCTV operators and private security firms.
Along with high quality voice and data communications, Airwave provides management consultancy and business improvement solutions covering every conceivable aspect of mobile working for the emergency services and our other public safety customers.
The generic benefits of the Airwave service are impressive. They include coverage to 99% of the nation’s land mass – in towns and cities, on all major and minor roads, across low-lying and forested rural areas and even in remote coastal regions.
Special coverage is already available at airports and at a growing number of railway stations, shopping centres and major sporting venues.
Crucially the Airwave service is inherently resilient. It has been designed to withstand the most aggressive attack or serious failure and will continue working even when public networks congest or crash in the immediate aftermath of major incidents.
Radio interoperability is another major benefit – not just for police forces that use it to communicate seamlessly across traditional administrative boundaries, but also between the emergency services at major incidents.
www.airwave.co.uk
ANITE Secure Information Solutions
Sponsor of the Scientific Development Award
FINALISTS
CIO Andrew Watson - British Transport Police
Douglas Bain - Hetfordshire Police
Nick Marsh and Tony Larkin - Metropolitan Police
DS Martin O`Farrell - West Yorkshire Police
WINNER
DS Martin O`Farrell - West Yorkshire Police
RUNNER UP
Andrew Watson - British Transport Police
Anite Secure Information Solutions Limited (SIS) is market leader in the provision of secure police systems to the Home Office. Anite offers leadership, corporate commitment and vetted resources that are aimed at helping our clients achieve their performance targets by harnessing technology. Anite has specific experience of meeting the exacting operational needs of today’s police user through our involvement on projects including the Violent and Sexual Offenders Register (ViSOR), the National Ballistic Intelligence Database (NaBID), the Facial Imaging National Database (FIND) pilot, Automatic Facial Recognition (AFR), and a suite of mobile policing applications.
Anite’s SOCRATES forensic intelligence software is in use in 24 UK police forces and the Forensic Science Service. Anite is also developing a modular SOCRATES adapter called SocNet that will allow forces to share real-time forensic intelligence. SocNet follows national guidelines and is due for release in October 2007. The solution is web-based and allows searching of key forensic intelligence (e.g. crime, location, MOs, exhibits, identification and outcomes) based on either local, regional or national search criteria.
Our Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) solutions, which are deployed and supported in every single UK police force and linked across the Criminal Justice eXchange (CJX) to a National ANPR Data Centre (NADC), are scaled to read 50 million number plates a day and at 150TeraBytes is the largest Oracle deployment in Europe.
Whatever the requirement, be it a small local system or a multi-user national intelligence environment, as the fifth largest UK listed IT provider Anite is ideally suited to meet your needs. Our vision, borne out of an empathetic understanding of the core needs of our customers, is ‘To help make society safer through the intelligent use of technology’. Against this strategic context, our aim is to support the police service in reducing crime, making society more secure against terrorist threat, and providing intelligence collection tools to equip our users in their duty of public service delivery. Anite delivers responsive and comprehensive secure information solutions to support our customers whilst meeting the highest levels of security.
www.anite.com
SERCO
Sponsor of the Organisational Performance Award
FINALISTS
DCC andy Trotter - British Transport Police
CS Kevin Lambert - Northumbria Police
Allan Shannon - Avon and Somerset Police
Sgt Philip Pilkington - Merseyside Police
Carol Drake - Kent Police
Sgt Stuart Hooper - Essex Police
WINNER
Carol Drake - Kent Police
RUNNER UP
CS Kevin lambert - Northumbria Police
At Serco, we design, deliver and manage change in markets as diverse as defence, transport, civil government, science and the private sector. This diversity is one of our greatest strengths as a business. It exposes us to more opportunities for growth, protects us against downturns in individual markets and enables us to share experience and best practice between sectors.
We improve patient care with our health services; we rehabilitate offenders in our prisons; we protect borders through technology; we provide swift, safe travel with our trains and transport systems; we help young people learn in the schools and training centres we manage; we enable trade by the precise measurements undertaken by our scientists. We bring service to life.
Serco works with governments around the world to help protect their citizens from a range of evolving threats and challenges in four key areas:
Law enforcement
Reducing crime and the fear of crime by enabling police and related organisations to deploy their resources most effectively
Offender management
Reducing re-offending by working with offenders in custody and the community
Immigration control
Enabling governments to manage migration and maintain effective control over their borders
Resilience
Working to help prevent major incidents such as terrorist attacks, and to respond to them effectively if they do take place
Our capabilities range from change management through systems integration to service delivery management and operations – all underpinned by Serco’s combination of commercial know-how with a deep public service ethos.
Law Enforcement - working with governments to reduce crime and reoffending, control immigration and prevent terrorism.
We aim to help the police and related organisations reduce crime by focusing their resources most effectively on front-line operations.
As serious crime becomes increasingly organised, international and technology-enabled, we are working with key agencies to ensure they are able to rise to new challenges. We currently have relationships with many local police forces and key national agencies including the National Crime Squad, the Serious and
Organised Crime Agency, Assets Recovery Agency, HM Revenue and Customs, and others.
We provide a range of technology-enabled services ranging from intelligence systems, command and control, communications, safety cameras, number plate recognition and ‘back office’ functions like human resources and payroll management.’
www.serco.com
Eurocopter Limited
Sponsor of the Business Area Development Award
FINALISTS
Steve Wilmott - City of London Police
Jim Gamble - CEOP
DCI Charlie McMurdie - Metropolitan Police
ACC Ian Seabridge - Greater Manchester Police
ACC Nick Tofiluk - NPIA
WINNER
Jim Gamble - CEOP
RUNNER UP
ACC Ian Seabridge- Greater Manchester Police
McAlpine Helicopters Ltd is the sole Eurocopter distributor in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Founded in 1974 and located in Oxford, it is owned by the Sir Robert McAlpine Group (90%) and Eurocopter (10%). The Company specialises in helicopter sales, bespoke completions, maintenance and spares support. Its in-house engineering capabilities include design, installation, flight-testing and certification, with all of its 140 employees being committed to delivering first class customer service.
Since 1995 over 200 helicopters have been sold, averaging one per month. McAlpine Helicopters develops advanced mission systems which have contributed to over 70% in market share for the Police and the Emergency Services sectors. The Company is also able to offer a completion service to further adapt or modify helicopters to meet the most demanding specific mission requirements along with providing VVIP completions for corporate and private customers.
Eurocopter, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EADS, is the largest manufacturer of helicopters in the world with 13,000 helicopters delivered in 138 countries and supplies almost one third of the global rotorcraft fleet.
www.eurocopter.co.uk
RIG Police Recruit
Sponsor of the Career Achievement Award
FINALISTS
Inspector Nigel Bratchell - Hetfordshire Police
PC Keith Collins - Lancashire Police
DCS Sharon Kerr - Metroplitan Police
DCI Ian Chiverton
Supt. Andrew McQuiggan - PSNI
Kenneth Coates - SOCA
Lyn Hester - South Wales Police
Sgt Martin Fuller - West Yorkshire Police
Sgt Anne Egan - (retired) - Wiltshire Police
WINNER
DCI Ian Chiverton- Metropolitan Police Service
RUNNER UP
DCS Sharon Kerr - Metropolitan Police
RIG Police Recruit is a unique and specialist police recruitment agency dedicated solely to providing police jobs and skills to UK Police Forces, Local Authorities, Regulatory bodies and Government Departments. We supply experienced former police officers on a temporary and permanent contract basis nationwide.
RIG Police Recruit staff are a combination of highly skilled recruitment consultants and former Police Officers. Maintaining and developing a large database of retired Officers with extensive experience in both operational and administrative policing roles enable us to tailor service to your Police recruitment needs and supply skilled candidates within 48hrs.
The RIG Police Recruit former officer database covers all policing skills, including: Police Training, Volume Crime Investigation, Enforcement and Fraud, Operations and Event Planning, Police Support and civilian roles.
www.policerecruit.co.uk
Niche Technology Inc
Sponsor of the Crime Investigation Award
FINALISTS
DI Paul Roche - Merseyside Police
DI Mark Ridley - West Uorkshire Police
DI Sue Hickman - South Yorks Police
DC Kevin Chandler - British Transport Police
WINNER
DI Sue Hickman - South Yorks Police
RUNNER UP
DC Kevin Chandler
Niche Technology is the world`s leading supplier of Police Records Management Software (RMS). Niche RMS is currently used by over 100,000 police personnel in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. In the UK since 2002 Niche RMS has been deployed in 10 forces serving the operational policing information needs of over 50,000 police personnel.
Niche RMS is a single integrated application that streamlines all aspects of operational policing supporting crime management, intelligence management, general incident management, custody, case preparation and property. NicheRMS also has sophisticated work flow and a three dimensional security model enabling all staff to see only what their role demands whilst providing capability to support all intelligence submission, sanitization and dissemination or covert policing operation.
Our unique InterNiche functionality supports the richest information sharing between forces of any system currently in production in the UK. Niche RMS is also approved by ACPO for connectivity to the CPS and other criminal justice partners through the Criminal Justice Exchange.
The opportunity to consolidate a number of operational systems into one single application is:
Delivering operational benefits to front line staff; especially ease of access to critical information
Helping to deliver performance improvements in a range of areas including increased arrest and detection rates
Being used to deliver significant process improvements in a number of forces and a reduction in IT support costs
Helping forces achieve better compliance with national standards and policies including NCRS and MOPI.
The average time from contract award to go live is 12 months which demonstrates the extent to which the application supports the widest range of UK policing needs.
www.nicherms.com
Sponsor of the Community Reassurance Award
FINALISTS
Bill Oddy - West Oxfordshire District Council
Insp John Thirkettle - Humberside Police
Sgt Jason Keates - Gloucestershire Constabulary
Chief Insp Tim Bailey - Warwickshire Police
Sgt Steven Kinvig - Strathclyde Police
WINNER
Insp John thirkettle - Humberside Police
RUNNER UP
Bill Oddy - West Oxfordshire District Council
CJS Event Solutions organises bespoke events on behalf of both public and private sector organisations, providing everything you need to ensure a successful outcome for your event.
With a team of experienced events professionals, CJS will tailor our wide range of services to meet your individual needs.
Whether you require the complete event management service, or simply need us to fulfil a specific event element, CJS Event Solutions will deliver a seamless, highly professional service every time.
CJS Event Solutions works with many public bodies throughout the UK, managing and producing an extensive variety of events.
Our range of work varies from small, seminar styled workshops, through to international conferences, gala dinners/award ceremonies and fundraising activities.
CJS Event Solutions can select venues appropriate for all such events, including purpose built conference facilities and significant landmark buildings, whilst looking after all aspects of delegates needs from start to finish.
www.cjseventsolutions.org
The Forensic Science Service (FSS)
Sponsor of the Scientific Development Award
FINALISTS
CIO Andrew Watson - British Transport Police
Douglas Bain - Hetfordshire Police
Nick Marsh and Tony Larkin - Metropolitan Police
DS Martin O`Farrell - West Yorkshire Police
WINNER
DS Martin O`Farrell - West Yorkshire Police
RUNNER UP
Andrew Watson - British Transport Police
Trusted by police forces worldwide, we are the leading provider of forensic solutions using cutting-edge forensic science and technology, expert analysis and a commitment to the highest standards of integrity.
We have facilities across the UK handling some 130,000 cases a year.
In an increasingly competitive market, our experience in the fields of case assessment and interpretation, and, the expertise of our staff are what set us apart.
With a flexible approach and a focus on delivering useful and conclusive results, we are set up to meet the needs of all types of investigations. This allows us to deliver tailored solutions in key areas to meet the demands of law enforcement agencies by providing forensic services for:
serious crime
volume crime
organised crime
property crime
international crime
hi-tech crime
counter terrorism
drugs
and road policing, among others.
This integrated approach draws on skills and experience from all forensic disciplines to offer a complete service from crime-scene to courtroom.
And our commitment to a wide-ranging Research and Development programme ensures the techniques available are amongst the most up-to-date and advanced of any in the world.
www.forensic.gov.uk
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