A SOUTH Yorkshire Police project that aims to reduce cannabis grows in the private rental sector in Barnsley has been shortlisted for an award.
The ‘Cannabis Grow Aware Scheme’ is one of two SYP’s programmes have made the final 12 in the annual Tilley Awards.
The Tilley Awards take place every year across three days and celebrate problem-oriented projects that have achieved measurable success in resolving issues faced by the police, partners and/or the community.
The awards run alongside the National Problem Solving Conference, which is part of the wider policing National Problem Solving Programme. This year, the awards and the conference will run from October.
The second programme to make the shortlist, ‘Saving lives with GPS’, is a project that addresses the prevalence of people living with dementia going missing and suffering serious harm as a consequence, with no previous successful preventative solutions that work at scale that are cost effective, legal and ethical.
The full list of entries shortlisted for this year’s Tilley Awards are as follows:
Lincolnshire Police – Summertime Policing Plan 2023
Merseyside – Just Eat
South Yorkshire Police – Saving lives with GPS
South Yorkshire Police – Cannabis Grow Aware Scheme
Greater Manchester Police – Lost & Found: Navigating the enigma of persistent missing from home locations
Cleveland – Operation Arrow
Leicestershire – NTE related Serious Violence
Lancashire – Operation Marano
Greater Manchester Police – Risky Premises
South Wales Police – Operation Murray
Cambridgeshire Constabulary – Operation Kong
Lancashire Police – Fylde Community Boxing
The final judging panel, which consists of problem solving leads and subject matter experts from across the country, will mark each of the shortlisted entries to identify the five finalists.
Each member of the panel will use the same judging criteria as the sift judges, and the final five projects will be announced on Tuesday August 27.
Once announced, each of these projects will be invited to present their projects to the judging panel and audience members at the National Problem Solving Conference at St George’s Park in Burton upon Trent in October.
The judging panel and audience members will then mark the presentations, and the highest scoring project will be awarded the Tilley Awards 2024 winner.
The National Problem Solving Programme began back in 2017 after South Yorkshire Police was awarded a grant from the Home Office to lead a national problem solving programme on behalf of all UK forces.
