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J. Stannard Baker Award For Highway Safety
The deadline for the 2008 Award is December 31, 2008. To submit your application, click here.
Sponsored by the National Sheriffs' Association, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Nationwide Insurance, and the Northwestern University Traffic Institute, the prestigious J. Stannard Baker Award for Highway Safety annually recognizes individual law enforcement officers and others who have made significant achievements in highway safety. The award is designed to recognize law enforcement officers and others who have made significant contributions to, or outstanding achievements in, highway safety.
The National Sheriffs' Association is dedicated to promoting exemplary performance and creative approaches to enforcing traffic safety. Through partnerships with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Northwestern University Center for Public Safety, and Nationwide Insurance, NSA has ensured that the programs in local communities receive national attention through the J. Stannard Baker Award.
Northwestern University Center for Public Safety is proud to sponsor the J Stannard Baker Award. J Stannard Baker, while working with the Northwestern University Center for Public Safety (formally the Traffic Institute) developed a mathematical and physics approach to crash investigation that has been replicated world wide. J Stannard Baker was well known as a pioneer in the broad field of traffic safety. The lives saved through one mans brilliant initiate is immeasurable. The Center for Public Safety continues in this tradition of ""Advancing Excellence"". The advancements of the Traffic Institute and J. Stannard Baker live on in the spirit of law enforcement officers working to advance the field of crash investigation and traffic safety.
"Nationwide believes finding ways to prevent losses is part of our On Your Side® commitment to our policyholders. For nearly 60 years, Nationwide has helped lead efforts to improve driver safety. Nationwide's commitment continues today as we work to fight drunk driving and conduct research on issues like distracted driving. Nationwide is proud to support the National Sheriff's Association and the J. Stannard Baker Award."
Categories and Criteria
Development of Unique Law Enforcement/Community Traffic Safety Programs: This is to recognize an employee (officer, deputy sheriff) from an Office of the Sheriff who has shown unusual initiative and imagination in developing and promulgating traffic safety programs. A Heroic or Meritorious service act involving a traffic safety function is acceptable with the category.
Special Award to Governmental or Private Individuals: The award panel may grant a special award to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to highway safety.
The award is managed by the National Sheriffs' Association. The selection panel is made up of NSA's Traffic Safety Committee which may or may not grant awards, at its discretion.
The award recipient will be notified by March 15 each year, and will be invited to attend the NSA Annual Conference where the award is conferred. Travel and lodging expenses are provided for the recipient.
Candidates for the award must be a full-time paid officer, deputy sheriff from a city/county Office of the Sheriff.
The employee or civilian being nominated must have contributed to the highway safety program in their governmental agency. Long years of service are a consideration but not the determining factor. Equally, short service is to be considered. However, the quality of the service or program is the essential factor.
To receive this award, the individual must first be nominated by a law enforcement agency, traffic safety group or official; and second, must be a full-time paid employee of a city/county Office of the Sheriff.
An individual from either the public or the private sector who has made a significant contribution to highway safety would also be eligible for the special award. This award is designed to recognize the individual efforts of government employees, such as traffic engineers, educators, judges, prosecutors, motor vehicle examiners, etc., who have made outstanding contributions to highway safety programs and issues.
Nominations must be submitted by December 31, 2007 to:
J. Stannard Baker Award
National Sheriffs' Association
1400 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
ATTN: Ed Hutchison
Who Was J. Stannard Baker?
This award was named to honor J. Stannard Baker, a former physics professor at Northwestem University who made significant contributions to highway safety. A pioneer in accident reconstruction investigation, he developed this subject into a science by applying the laws of physics and developing mathematical equations to assist law enforcement officers in their investigations. The first books on accident reconstruction investigation were written by J. Stannard Baker and are still in use today.
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