Guidance Notes
These notes are intended to help you so please read them carefully before completing the application form.
Introduction
The Excellence in Fraud Policing Award is open to all police officers and staff working in police forces in England and Wales. The award is sponsored by City of London Police with a judging panel consisting of cross-agency practitioners and senior managers.
This is a new award and is designed to reflect the achievements of individuals and teams who have made outstanding, innovative contributions to fraud policing.
The award has three categories:
· Individual
· Team
· Innovation
Each category has one winner and one runner up.
This award is designed to give you the opportunity to nominate yourself or a staff member, colleague or team for recognition of excellence in fraud policing. The awards cover work across any of the V+4Ps - Victims, Prevent, Prepare, Pursue, Protect.
Please note that the Keith Hughes Award covers the categories of financial investigation and asset recovery.
Application information
· Police staff and officers may nominate themselves or their own team for the award or nominations can be made by a colleague or manager.
· Applications should be supported by the candidate or team’s senior manager.
· The evidence sections of the form should not exceed 1,000 words in total.
· Nominations may include additional supporting material such as media coverage or impact evaluation reports; however, these will not be accepted instead of a written application, nor will it be counted against the overall word count.
· We cannot accept applications or the supporting material by post. Scanned images of hardcopy material are acceptable.
· Applicants may only enter in one category i.e. either the team or individual, but not a team and an individual within that team for essentially the same piece of work.
· Organisations may submit more than one application for each category. Each separate application must cover different work.
Criteria
Nominations for the team and individual categories must demonstrate excellence in fraud policing against at least one of the V+4Ps to qualify for consideration.
Nominations for the Innovation Award must demonstrate an innovative approach to fraud policing against at least one of the V+4Ps to qualify for consideration.
Victims- Fraud has a real impact on victims’ lives and livelihoods. Activities under this strand may include developing and implementing victim management strategies, as well as establishing vulnerability factors.
Prevent- The police service’s ‘prevent’ ambition is to stop individuals becoming involved in fraud, or providing support for economic crime activities. Activities under the prevent strand may include improving the knowledge and understanding of the criminal career pathways to economic crime, or designing prevent interventions.
Prepare- The police service’s ‘prepare’ ambition is to reduce the impact of fraud; firstly by understanding and dealing effectively with the current and emerging threat, and when such crime has occurred by ensuring that victims are well supported. Activities under this strand may include developing workforce expertise and strength in the investigation of economic crime, as well as embedding an evidence based approach to policing.
Pursue- The police service’s ‘pursue’ ambition is to reduce the fraud threat through the investigation of individuals and groups engaged in fraud, disruption of their activities and denial of access to the capabilities criminals need to enable their crimes.
Protect- The police service’s ‘protect’ ambition is to strengthen the protection of individuals, communities, systems and infrastructure against fraud. This may be through education and training for the public and businesses, or reassurance and advice to victims of economic crime.
Judging
Nominations will be judged against the V+4P criteria. For each award there are additional criteria that the judges will be looking for to demonstrate excellence;
Individual Award
· The work of the individual is strongly aligned to at least one of the V+4Ps
· Displays individual excellence in the chosen area, above and beyond typical expectations of their role
· Evidences the outcomes from their work and the impact that their work has had on the chosen area
Team Award
· The work of the team is strongly aligned to at least one of the V+4Ps
· Evidences the outcomes from their work and the impact that the work of the team has had on the chosen area
· Evidences effective working as part of a team (including multi-agency working) to solve a problem or achieve a goal
Innovation Award
· The work of the individual or team is strongly aligned to at least one of the V+4Ps
· Exhibits innovation that challenges convention and creates efficiencies or greater added value
· Evidences the outcomes from their work and the impact that their work has had on the chosen area
Providing Examples
The information you provide will demonstrate suitability of the nominee for the award and will help determine whether they evidence excellence and innovation. Please consider the situation, task, action and result when compiling your evidence.
Signed declaration
Application forms are only accepted by email therefore sign-off must be demonstrated by the email chain accompanying the application form. The approval of a senior manager of the person or team being nominated must be demonstrated to confirm the accuracy of the information provided on the form.
Submitting your nomination form
Return your completed form and any supporting evidence by email to
The closing date for nominations is midday on Friday 8th September 2017.
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