Colonel Ahmed Saeed Al Nuaimi, Ajman Police, United Arab Emirates

Colonel Ahmed Saeed Al Nuaimi currently serves as the Director of the Criminal Investigations Department at Ajman Police. Throughout his career, he has been continually recognized as an exceptional leader who utilizes innovative technology solutions to positively impact crime and information sharing in his city, country, and region. Under his leadership, multiple information-sharing initiatives have lowered the crime rate, facilitated the capture of global fugitives, solved transnational criminal cases, and increased trust in the police. As a testament to his impact, many projects and systems developed for the Ajman Police have been rolled out nationally after proving successful. The colonel and his team have received multiple innovation awards from the Ministry of Interior in the United Arab Emirates.

Catherine Miller, Montgomery County Police Department

Catherine Miller is a national leader in the justice data-sharing field and has led the creation of the National Capital Region’s NCR-LinX program. She has also influenced the development of many other regional programs of this type across the United States. Catherine has been instrumental in the sharing between these LinX programs and the FBI’s N-DEX system, thereby creating a powerful national police data network. Her efforts have greatly increased police access to data, undoubtedly leading to overall crime reduction and justice for victims. Catherine works tirelessly in countless leadership and working group positions including roles in IACP, IJIS, NCIS and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. She is the immediate past chair of the IACP LEIT Section Chair, and has co-authored numerous justice research papers on LinX, RMS standards, facial recognition, and LPR systems. She has worked for the Montgomery County, Maryland, Police Department since 2007.

Bonnie Locke, Nlets, The International Justice & Public Safety Network

Throughout Bonnie Locke’s career, her work with Lockheed Martin, the state of Wisconsin, Nlets, and as an active IACP member, she has brought together practitioners and industry partners to work and share their experiences in implementing state-of-the-art technology and information-sharing programs.

Bonnie has been an international leader serving on many national and international committees, working groups, and task-forces promoting and sharing law enforcement technology standards and policies.  Bonnie served on the LEIT Section Board from 2015 to 2019, has been an active CJIS Committee member, and most importantly rallied the committee members to keep the much-needed work going as their Chair when we lost Pam Scanlon. Under Bonnie’s leadership, the CJIS Committee produced incredibly important documents related to License Plate Recognition systems, Facial Recognition, and Records Management Systems Standards to just name a few. Bonnie also helped lead the effort to create the License Plate Recognition website page under the IACP which has been an invaluable resource to agencies across the country.

Bonnie helped to develop five new working groups that continue to make progress in their work. These include Mobile Best Practices, Tech Resources, CJIS Data Integrity, Mental Health Collaboration with Law Enforcement, and International Working Groups.