Awards
Tilley Award 2003
The Tilley Award was set up by the Home Office Policing and Reducing Crime Unit (now the Crime and Policing Group) in 1999 to encourage and recognise good practice in implementing problem-oriented policing (POP). The Award, funded by the Home Office, will pay for winners to attend the Annual International Problem-Oriented Policing Conference in San Diego: this usually provides the opportunity for winners to present their project at the conference.
An additional, third award will be made this year recognising contributions made to reducing crime by crime and disorder reduction partnerships (CDRPs). Prizes will be awarded for:
Crime and disorder reduction
Projects entered under this category should describe work to reduce specific crime and disorder problems and can cover the full range of problems encountered by the police. However, the judges will be looking to see how far the project demonstrates a wider adoption of problem solving, and that it is used on a systematic basis to address police work day to day, rather than one-off problems.
Organisational support
The focus this year for this category is on the explicit delivery of problem oriented crime reduction. In previous years this category has included entries where the police have used the approach to deal with any organisational issue (for example, staff sickness, shift systems), which may or may not have been aimed at supporting front line staff to work in a problem solving fashion. This year entries will only be eligible if they can demonstrate that they have helped to improve the delivery of POP. Examples might include: change management programmes to introduce problem solving, including training; changes to the performance management process to ensure POP is adopted properly; the development of Incident Management Units and so on. You need to show the end result as improved delivery of problem solving in relation to crime and disorder problems and how this particular project helped to bring that about. If you are in any doubt about the eligibility of your project please check with us first, as inappropriate entries will not be judged.
Effective partnerships
This is a new category intended to recognise the important role that local crime and disorder partnerships can play in reducing crime and disorder. Points to bear in mind include:
The police need to have played an active role in the project and the entry needs to come from them but endorsed by the chief officers of three core agencies involved;
Entries can be either about reducing crime and disorder problems and therefore need to fulfill the requirements under the crime and disorder reduction category above, or about organisational aspects of partnership working and therefore fulfill the requirements under the organisational support category above. However, again the focus must be on the effective delivery of a problem oriented approach to crime reduction;
Entries should demonstrate that the work forms part of the local crime and disorder strategy;
Although the police should lead in preparing the entry, they may not necessarily have been the lead agency in the project. It is important to show that the project was a joint enterprise and the contributions of each agency should be made clear.
How to enter
Entries should include a summary of 300-400 words and a detailed description in up to 4000 words of the project. The Home Office has compiled some guidance notes that you might find useful to read before putting together an entry. It includes the questions that the judges will be asking themselves when reviewing your project, and outlines of the most common reasons why projects are rejected (project entered too early, poor presentation, inappropriate appendices, unhelpful summaries).
Entry forms have been produced for the Front
Sheet 
PDF 67Kb and Project
Summary
PDF 59Kb, but entrants will be expected to devise their
own format for the detailed report. Entries must be
endorsed by letter(s) of endorsement from chief
officer(s). See the brochure for full details.
The closing date for entries is 30th May 2003.
The winners
The winning projects will be selected from a judging panel composed of leading academics, police, practitioners and former prizewinners. The prizes will be presented at the UK National Problem Oriented Policing Conference to be held in September 2003. The winners and other selected entries will be invited to present their projects.
Examples of previous Tilley Award winners can be found by following the Related Links in the right panel of this page.
Download
Tilley Award 2003 Brochure
PDF 171Kb
View Tilley Award 2003 guidance for entrants
Download
Tilley Award 2003 Front Sheet
PDF 67Kb
Download
Tilley Award 2003 Summary Sheet
PDF 59Kb
Last update: 06/03/03