25th
ANNIVERSARY AWARDS RECIPIENTS
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CALEA launched two new, continuing awards at the 25th
Anniversary Program during the Austin Conference. These special awards pay
tribute to individual Chief Executive Officers and agencies or governmental
entities that have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to CALEA and the
accreditation process.
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 Commissioner John LaFlamme
(pictured left), chair of the Awards Committee,
announced the first recipients of the Bittner and Cotter Awards.
In recognition of long service to both the law enforcement
profession and CALEA, the Egon Bittner Award is presented to Chief
Executive Officers of agencies accredited by CALEA for fifteen or more
continuous years. The 2004 recipients of the Egon Bittner Award are: Chief
Kenneth R. Burns, Lebanon (OH) Division of Police; Chief Charlie T. Deane,
Prince William County (VA) Police Department; Chief Darrell L. Fant,
Highland Park (TX) Deptartment of Public Safety; Chief Steven R. Harris,
Redmond (WA) Police Department; Chief Leo C. McCann, retired from Buffalo
Grove (IL) Police Department and currently at Skokie (IL) Police Department;
Chief James M. O’Dell; Kettering (OH) Police Department; Sheriff Everett
S. Rice, formerly of the Pinellas County (FL) Sheriff’s Office; Chief
Walter A. Ugrinic, Shaker Heights (OH) Police Department; and Chief
Grafton L. Wells, Jr. (Retired), Staunton (VA) Police Department. |
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This award is named for Dr. Egon Bittner, who in 1979-80,
greatly contributed to CALEA’s early development and was a CALEA Commissioner
from 1981 through 1988.
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 The James V. Cotter Award is for Chief Executive
Officers who have successfully brought three or more new agencies into CALEA
Accredited status. The 2004 recipient is Chief Donald L. Carey,
Melbourne (FL) Police Department, who brought the following agencies into CALEA
Law Enforcement Accreditation: Blacksburg (VA) Police Department (1993);
Independence (MO) Police Department (1996); and the Omaha (NE) Police Department
(2001).
This award is named for James V. Cotter, who
came to CALEA in 1980 as the first Executive Director, and is credited with
having the foresight and diplomatic skills to form the coalitions that developed
the standards, bylaws, and procedures that evolved into the current Commission
on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc.
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Commissioner Eddie Gonzalez presents
Appreciation Awards at the 25th Anniversary
Program |
Awards of
Appreciation were presented to the Commission’s four founding law
enforcement executive associations: the International Association of Chiefs
of Police (IACP); the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement
Executives (NOBLE); the National Sheriffs' Association (NSA); and the Police
Executive Research Forum (PERF). Also presented with an Appreciation Award
was the Association of Public-safety Communications Officials International
(APCO).  |
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