Tell Someone About Our Third Annual Safer Way Award®
Deadline to Submit Nominations: March 31, 2013 Read the full story by clicking on NBC News. Drivers fleeing from the police have become a regular feature for local and national news outlets. However, police officers receive little recognition when they apprehend known flight risks without the chase.
PursuitSAFETY, a national nonprofit organization, corrects this oversight every year with its Safer Way Award®. Online nomination forms, due March 31, 2013, are available and downloadable at this link: http://pursuitsafety.org/saferway2013.html. PursuitSAFETY presented the 2011 Safer Way Award® to St. Louis County officers who used detective work to apprehend suspected thieves known for fleeing from the police. In 2012, Dallas PD received the award for its policy, and the organization also gave a commendation to Chicago officers who captured a suspect involved in a shooting after they received registration information regarding the offender's vehicle. In situations such as these, the officers not only apprehended the suspects without a chase, but they brought the offenders to justice, making sure they received the appropriate sentence for their crime.
IACP Highway Safety Committee
The Highway Safety Committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) will judge the nominees based on achievements prior to and through the year 2012. The winning agency will receive the third annual PursuitSAFETY Safer Way Award® during the Highway Safety Awards Breakfast at the 120th annual IACP Conference and Exposition in October 2013.
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In the news
PursuitSAFETY's board and committee members sent us links to these news/opinion articles. We thought you might want to read them:
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