Award Categories and Nomination Material

WIFLE Leadership Award

•    Displayed initiative and effective federal law enforcement/private industry partnership in creating a system or model that prevents crimes.  The model may have been developed as a result of learning from past crimes, or as a result of thinking proactively and creatively about what can be done to prevent certain crimes from occurring again.
•    Eligibility:  
-All full-time, sworn and non-sworn Federal law enforcement officers.
Contribution(s) or evidence presented must have occurred or impact continues to occur between January and December of the previous year.

Elizebeth Smith Friedman Intelligence Award of Excellence

1.    Demonstrated an exceptional and sustained level of intelligence analysis, which provided a substantial and broad impact in one or all areas of the field of intelligence as recognized by the agency and/or the intelligence community.

2.    Processed information into actionable intelligence in furtherance of a law enforcement operation, special event, such as National Special Security Event (NSSE), reduction/prevention of crime, and/or terrorism.

3.    Innovated intelligence integration functions to further investigative operations, secure/protect an event (NSSE), reduce/prevent crime, and/or prevent terrorism.
4.    Increased situational awareness, innovative intelligence techniques, and/or integrated views on issues of national security and public safety, in alignment to the ever-changing demands of the law enforcement profession or intelligence profession.

5.    Analyzed intelligence that resulted in significant contributions or enhanced the effectiveness of a complex investigative effort; the successful outcome of a special event(s) (NSSE) and/or law enforcement operation(s).

Eligibility:  All full-time Federal law enforcement personnel, sworn and non-sworn and full time intelligence professionals from the Intelligence Field.  An individual or group may be nominated.

WIFLE Partnership Award-Outstanding Contribution of a State or Local Officer Serving on a Federal Task Force

1. Demonstrates exceptional investigative work in a task force group or in a task force environment investigating individual(s) engaged in the following crimes:

• Trafficking of women or children for sexual exploitation or any individual for forced labor; crime(s) of violence against women or any minority group;
• Civil rights violation(s); any terrorist-related violation against the United States; or,
• Any corporate or governmental fraud.

2.    State or local officer serves as a vital member of the team and demonstrates exemplary conduct and willingness to advance the objectives of the task force and is recognized by the supervision/management of their department and the federal agency for those attributes.
3.    Individual nominated serves as a role model for women in law enforcement.
4.    Investigation must have concluded or been adjudicated between January and December of the previous year

Eligibility:  All full-time State or Local Law Enforcement Officers.  All nominees must be a full-time employee with their agency/department as of February of the current year.