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26/09/2005
PSNI win award for vehicle clean up campaign
A campaign to reduce the number of unlicensed vehicles in Northern Ireland has won the runner-up slot in an international competition to highlight best practice in community policing.
The PSNI's 'Operation Clean Up' was runner-up in the 2005 Community Policing Awards staged by the International Association of Chiefs of Police and ITT Industries Night Vision in the United States.
Judges said the campaign demonstrated "the meaningful change that can occur when law enforcement officials and their communities are empowered to utilise all available resources for crime prevention".
PSNI Sgt Norman Gibson, who collected the award at a ceremony in Miami, said the objective was to implement the scheme right across Northern Ireland: “In the first 10 months of Operation Clean Up in greater Belfast we have evidence of reductions in many areas of volume crime and disorder. That’s good news for law-abiding people in those communities and we want to replicate this success throughout Northern Ireland.
“This award is recognition at an international level of how police can make a positive difference to people’s lives by reducing crime and making Northern Ireland safer through a partnership approach with other agencies and local communities.”
A total of 148 entries were submitted for the awards from the United States, Canada, Switzerland, UK, India and Taiwan.
(MB/SP)
The PSNI's 'Operation Clean Up' was runner-up in the 2005 Community Policing Awards staged by the International Association of Chiefs of Police and ITT Industries Night Vision in the United States.
Judges said the campaign demonstrated "the meaningful change that can occur when law enforcement officials and their communities are empowered to utilise all available resources for crime prevention".
PSNI Sgt Norman Gibson, who collected the award at a ceremony in Miami, said the objective was to implement the scheme right across Northern Ireland: “In the first 10 months of Operation Clean Up in greater Belfast we have evidence of reductions in many areas of volume crime and disorder. That’s good news for law-abiding people in those communities and we want to replicate this success throughout Northern Ireland.
“This award is recognition at an international level of how police can make a positive difference to people’s lives by reducing crime and making Northern Ireland safer through a partnership approach with other agencies and local communities.”
A total of 148 entries were submitted for the awards from the United States, Canada, Switzerland, UK, India and Taiwan.
(MB/SP)
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