MADD North Carolina Awards of Excellence Honoring Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice Professionals and Community Heroes for 2022

Instructions:

1.     Below you will see the listing of all available categories, please select one category for this nomination form.

  Note: you may nominate someone for multiple categories or nominate multiple people for the same category, but you must complete a new submission form through this portal each time.

2.     Fill out the nominee’s contact information. Please attempt to be as accurate as possible. (Official police department, title, full first name, etc.) This will allow for both accurate judging if someone is nominated more than once and for proper acknowledgement at the recognition dinner. 

3.     Please fill out your information as the nominator. Once the form is complete you will receive a confirmation of this submission via the contact information entered during this step

4.     VERY IMPORTANT: please fill out the final question requesting information as to why your nominee is deserving of this recognition. Please use specific examples from 2022. Judges will only be considering information provided in this nomination.

The system will not accept attachments but text from other documents may be pasted into the field at the bottom where you explain why the person/agency is being nominated. 

Questions: Contact Emily Ferraro at emily.ferraro@madd.org or Jennifer Lichtneger at jennifer.lichtneger@madd.org 

2022 Award Nomination Categories:

 

Police Officer of the Year

This award will be given to an officer that has shown outstanding efforts in reducing impaired driving through a combination of high enforcement activity, participating in awareness and prevention efforts on their own or through partnerships, supporting or training other officers, and other contributions to prevent impaired driving. This recognition will not be solely based on number of arrests, though that can be included in the nomination.

Sheriff of the Year

This award will be given to a deputy that has shown outstanding efforts in reducing impaired driving through a combination of high enforcement activity, participating in awareness and prevention efforts on their own or through partnerships, supporting or training other officers, and other contributions to prevent impaired driving. This recognition will not be solely based on number of arrests, though that can be included in the nomination.

Highway Patrolman of the Year

This award will be given to a patrolman that has shown outstanding efforts in reducing impaired driving through a combination of high enforcement activity, participating in awareness and prevention efforts on their own or through partnerships, supporting or training other officers, and other contributions to prevent impaired driving. This recognition will not be solely based on number of arrests, though that can be included in the nomination.

Prosecutor of the Year

This award will be given to a prosecutor who spends a majority of his/her time working on impaired driving cases, felony or misdemeanor. Possible areas to highlight could include: case load, conviction rate (ideally specified between DWI convictions vs. lesser charges), empathy/communication with victims, law enforcement partnerships, involvement in training (officers, community members, other prosecutors, judiciary, etc.), involvement in drunk and drugged driving prevention efforts, and other innovations/contributions to area of DWI prosecution.

Agency of the Year

This award will be given to an agency that collectively has shown outstanding efforts in reducing impaired driving through a combination of high enforcement activity, implementing effective strategies like public safety checkpoints, participating in awareness and prevention efforts on their own or through partnerships, and other innovations/contributions to prevent impaired driving.

Underage Drinking Prevention Hero

This award will be given to a community group/coalition or individual (non-law enforcement) that has excelled in efforts to prevent underage drinking through environmental and policy strategies or educational/awareness efforts.

 

MADD Hero Award

This award will be given to a first responder/criminal justice professional who has gone above and beyond in demonstrating support and compassion for a victim(s) of an impaired driving crash. Please list any specific examples of how the person has surpassed their normal duties to support victims individually or collectively. The nomination may be based on a single, notable act of compassion or consistent “above and beyond” actions. A first responder includes any of the following: law enforcement officers (Other Law enforcement or Criminal justice professionals that do not fit in the aforementioned categories, i.e. Wildlife, ALE, ABC, Special Teams, Campus Police etc.), firefighters, paramedics, EMTs, and/or coroners. Possible areas to highlight could include: empathy and concern shown for victim(s) while at the scene of the crash or in the hospital, going above the call of duty to assist victims and/or family members by providing pertinent information or checking in with victim(s) and/or family members after a crash, supporting victim(s) and/or family members compassionately at a court appearance, coordinating needed services/resources for a victim(s), supporting victim(s) in their efforts to advocate against impaired driving, advocating for the rights of all victims, or any other notable meaningful and compassionate acts to support individual victims or victims collectively.

DWI Enforcer Award -2 CATEGORIES

Category 1- The DWI Enforcer Award is presented to the top 5 law enforcement officers (any agency), that are NOT on a DWI Task Force, that have the most DWI arrests in 2022. This award is based solely on an individual officers’ DWI arrests statistics.

Category 2- The DWI Task Force Enforcer Award is presented to the top 5 law enforcement officer (any agency), that ARE on a DWI Task Force, that have the most DWI arrests in 2022. This award is based solely on an individual officers’ DWI arrests statistics.

Nominee Information (Person being nominated)

Please use nominee's given name. This will help ensure that the nominee gets credit for all of the nominations coming in for him/her per category should they be nominated by more than one person, all information will be put in the judging packet. Thank you - MADD Staff