SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California College and University Police Chiefs Association (CCUPCA) is accepting nominations for the annual CCUPCA awards and recognition ceremony.
Members of the educational law enforcement community deserve to be recognized for their outstanding actions and achievements. To recognize these individuals, CCUPCA has established the following awards:
- Award of Valor
- Award of Merit
- Award of Distinction
- Certificate of Appreciation
- Kirk Johnston Memorial Supervisor Award
The guidelines for the awards are as follows:
Award of Valor
Purpose: The Award of Valor is intended to recognize an officer who distinguishes him/herself with conspicuous bravery, heroism, or other outstanding action and under circumstances where the officer was fully aware of the scope of the action and the threat to physical safety.
Eligibility: Recipients can be anyone who is in a law enforcement-related job (either sworn or nonsworn) within the organization. It is not necessary that the recipient be a member of CCUPCA.
Nomination: Any member of the department employing the nominee can make the nomination. The department head must support the nomination. The executive of a college or university or any member of the CCUPCA board of directors may nominate department heads.
Award of Merit
Purpose: The Award of Merit is presented to any person affiliated with educational law enforcement who tangibly and conspicuously furthers the cause of educational law enforcement by outstanding or superior conduct. The performance of such act or acts shall be motivated solely by the desire to benefit the educational law enforcement community without thought of personal gain.
Eligibility: Recipients can be anyone who is in an educational law enforcement-related job (either sworn or nonsworn) within the organization. It is not necessary that the recipient be a member of CCUPCA.
Nomination: Any member of the department employing the nominee can make the nomination. The department head must support the nomination. The executive of a college or university or any member of the CCUPCA board of directors may nominate department heads.
Award of Distinction
Purpose: The Award of Distinction is presented for an outstanding act or accomplishment by an educational law enforcement individual (sworn or nonsworn), individual outside educational law enforcement, organization or business for an action, activity or service that performs a great service to the educational law enforcement community.
Eligibility: Any individual or organization that meets the above description.
Nomination: Any member of CCUPCA or educational law enforcement agency may make nominations.
Certificate of Appreciation
Purpose: The Certificate of Appreciation is presented to an educational law enforcement individual (sworn or nonsworn), individual outside educational law enforcement, organization or business for an action or service that enhances the image of CCUPCA and/or the educational law enforcement profession.
Eligibility: Any individual or organization that meets the above description.
Nomination: Any member of CCUPCA or educational law enforcement agency may make nominations.
Kirk Johnston Memorial Supervisor Award
Purpose: The Kirk Johnston Memorial Supervisor’s Award is intended to recognize supervisors who have distinguished themselves for exemplary service to the campus.
Eligibility: Recipients can be any member of a campus police or security department above the rank of patrol officer and below the rank of chief who through continuous exemplary service, action or activity or by one exemplary effort demonstrated exemplary supervisor ability. The exemplary efforts of the supervisor must have a positive effect on the students, staff and guests of the campus.
Nomination: Any member of the campus employing the nominee can submit the supervisor for consideration by the CCUPCA awards committee. The department head must support the nomination.
GENERAL INFORMATON
The CCUPCA is interested in your recommendations on who should receive these honors for the coming year. The organization encourages you to nominate a colleague who is deserving of recognition or work towards your own professional achievement.
Awards will be presented during CCUPCA’s Annual Training Conference. The awards dinner will take place on Thursday, Apr. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Embassy Suites, South Lake Tahoe.
To complete an on online application, please click: Awards Nomination. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ CCUPCA Jan. 2 press release
