IACP/iXP Excellence in Technology Award Winners

iXP Logo Overview: The IACP/iXP Excellence in Technology Award Program recognizes law enforcement agencies’ superior achievement and innovation in the field of communication and information technology. This international award program is designed to recognize exceptional, innovative, and extraordinary achievement in law enforcement technology-based programs, efforts, or initiatives that benefit law enforcement as a profession.

Chief Mark Marshall, IACP President (center), and Chief Greg Browning, Chair of the LEIM Section (right), present an award to Joe Estey, Past IACP President and Deputy Director Operations and HR, ChatComm, representing iXP Corporation (left) recognizing iXP Corporation’s tenure as a sponsor of the Excellence in Technology Awards Program.

8th Annual IACP/iXP Excellence in Technology Award Winners (2011)

Response to Computer Related Crime

This category recognizes an innovative or highly effective approach to computer-related crime, including programs and case-specific achievements by an agency, organization, or through collaborative efforts.

Large Agency Category (200+ sworn personnel)
West Virginia State Police
The mission of the West Virginia Cyber Crime Cooperative (WV3C) is to research digital forensics and electronic crimes, contribute to training development for local, state, and national law enforcement, and provide investigative support for all law enforcement statewide.

West Virginia State Police

Innovation in Information Technology

This category highlights the achievement of an agency in implementing an innovative information technology that enhances the effectiveness of law enforcement.

Large Agency Category (200+ sworn personnel)
District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department
The Personnel Resource Tracking (PRT) system is a complete employee life-cycle management application which allows the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to manage personnel via an easy-to-use web-based application. The application tracks a prospective employee from application, through background investigation, to all stages of employment and ultimately to separation from the agency.

District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department

Medium Agency Category (51-200 sworn personnel)
Village of Hanover Park, IL Police Department
The Village of Hanover Park recognizes that the key to success in community policing is communication; information needs to be shared across all lines of the organization. To improve communication, HPPD implemented a new community policing initiative that merges with their intelligence driven approach to fighting crime. What resulted was the use of a web platform that was inexpensive, had a simple interface and had the information officers might need at their fingertips in the form of a secure department web portal. The website allowed all this information to be found in one basic location.

Village of Hanover Park, IL Police Department

Small Agency Category (50 or fewer sworn personnel)
City of Waynesboro Police Department
The City of Waynesboro, Virginia Police Department, in partnership with the National Institute of Justice Office of Science and Technology and SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic (Advanced Law Enforcement Technology Branch) established a model License Plate Reader program that has positively influenced local, regional, and national deployment of LPR technologies.

City of Waynesboro, VA Police Department Awarded

City of Waynesboro Police Department

Regional/Multi-jurisdictional Agency Category (any size)
Minnesota Department of Public Safety
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), in conjunction with the DPS Office of Traffic Safety, developed a web-based application which enables electronic charging of criminal complaints in a statewide, interoperable application. The eCharging application is hosted by the BCA and shared by Minnesota’s court system, county and city attorneys, and law enforcement agencies including police departments, sheriff’s offices and the Minnesota State Patrol. Complaints are processed from start to finish in this application.

Minnesota Department of Public Safety

Excellence in Law Enforcement Communications and Interoperability

This category recognizes an agency’s implementation of technology to improve mission critical voice communications, interoperability and/or information/data sharing.

Regional/Multi-jurisdictional Agency Category (any size)
Fort Smith Police Department
Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office
Interstate 40 extends in an east-west direction across a large part of the southern United States. More than 120 Federal, state, county and local law enforcement agencies in Oklahoma and Arkansas - two states right in the middle of the I-40 corridor - have recently joined together in a multi-agency, interstate information sharing network that allows timely sharing of information about criminals and criminal behavior across those jurisdictions.

Fort Smith Police Department

Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office

Medium Agency Category (51-200 sworn personnel)
Nashville Emergency Communications Center
Leading the way in 9-1-1 Call Center innovation, Nashville, Tennessee’s Emergency Communications Center implemented Smart911 software to help Nashville citizens communicate more effectively during emergencies.

Nashville Emergency Communications Center

Large Agency Category (200+ sworn personnel)
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department developed the Communication Resources Emergency Workaround (CREW) to provide communications when no infrastructure exists, and allow public safety agencies to communicate with local, state and federal agencies during catastrophic communications failures. CREW is an emergency mobile systems-of-systems approach, with technological capabilities that will strengthen tactical interoperable communications, information sharing, collaboration capabilities and operable communications in accordance with State of California Homeland Security Strategy, with the mobile ability to roll-out video teleconference capabilities and to communicate and share data with the California Office of Emergency Services.