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SOP20-17 Directors Award SOP

The CBL & SOP Committee was requested to review the SOPs for the Directors Award and
submits the following recommendation.

Recommendation

The board endorse the following edits to the Directors Award SOP.

“Directors Award SOP

Section 1: This award shall be known as the IAATI Directors Award.

Section 2: This award was created in 1985. It is intended to honor any members who have
distinguished themselves by giving extraordinary service to IAATI. This award will be given to an
individual(s) and it is intended to honor any member(s) who have distinguished themselves by
giving extraordinary service to IAATI and by promoting the objectives in Section 3, Article 1 of the
Constitution. It is an award chosen by the IAATI Directors and may be bestowed to any IAATI
member.

Section 3: This award is to be funded by IAATI and the winner will receive a plaque with his or
her name and date of award.

Section 4: Selection of award recipients shall be made by a committee of all of the directors with
the most senior director acting as chair of the committee. The committee shall give
consideration to individuals who have distinguished themselves by giving extraordinary service
to IAATI and by promoting the objectives in Section 3, Article 1 of the Constitution. The committee
shall be comprised of a Chairperson appointed by the President from amongst active Directors,
and all Directors from the International Board of IAATI. Selection of award recipients shall be
made by the Directors and the Chairperson will only vote in the event of a tie between nominees.

The committee shall review all nominations and provide the Chairperson with a decision prior to
the June 1 deadline.

Section 5: It will be the duty of the Chairman Committee Chairperson to provide the Executive
Director of IAATI, the award winner’s details, a copy of the nomination used to win the award,
and an article on the award winner (for the APB and/or Vehicle Crime Today) by June 1 prior to
the annual seminar.

Section 6: Nominations for the ‘Directors Award’ may be submitted by anyone or any
organization via the Committee Chairperson and Executive Director.”