Tilley Awards shortlist announced

All of the 2023 Tilley Award applications have been reviewed and we are pleased to announce the ten shortlisted entries are:

• Greater Manchester Police – Operation Vulcan
• Greater Manchester Police – Problem Solving Knife-Enabled Robbery
• South Yorkshire Police – Operation Parksafe
• Metropolitan Police – Operation Boxster
• Devon & Cornwall Police – Anti-Drink Spiking Scheme
• Cleveland Police– Operation Arrow
• Durham Constabulary – Operation Parallelogram
• PSNI – Between the Lines: Dungannon
• Greater Manchester Police – Operation Overspill
• Northamptonshire Police – Accident Reduction

We would like to congratulate each member of our shortlist and their submissions will now be marked by our final judging panel to determine who this year’s five winning finalists will be.

Each finalist will be then be invited to the present their projects at the National Problem Solving Conference in October, where our judging panel and audience members will vote for an overall winner.

NPCC Lead for Problem Solving and host of the National Conference, South Yorkshire Police Chief Constable Lauren Poultney, has commented on the shortlist, “I would like to congratulate all of our ten shortlist and thank everyone who entered a submission to this year’s awards.

“Each year the calibre of projects entered increases, and once again this year’s entries are amongst some of the best examples we’ve seen of problem solving methodology used in practice.

“This is testament to the work all police forces and our partners are doing to embed this into our ways of working and I’m pleased we are able to showcase and celebrate this via the Tilley Awards.

“I’m also pleased we have this year been able to change the format of the awards to allow the best problem solving initiatives to receive recognition. As demonstrated through many of this year’s entrants, problem solving methodology can be used across all areas of policing and by removing the categories used in previous years, we are able to celebrate and showcase this on a national platform.

“I would like to wish all members of the shortlist good luck and I’m looking forward to finding out who the five winning finalists will be.”

The winning finalists will be announced on Monday 28^th August.

Further information on the Tilley Awards and the National Problem Solving Conference are available on our website here. You can also view copies of previous years’ Tilley Award projects on the Knowledge Hub.