Sub­mit your nom­i­nee for the Nar­cotic Inter­dic­tion Offi­cer of the Year & Nar­cotic Inter­dic­tion Group of the Year

• Appli­ca­tion for INIA Offi­cer Of The Year
• Appli­ca­tion For INIA Unit Of The Year

The Nar­cotics Inter­dic­tion Offi­cer of the Year (NIOY) award will be pre­sented annu­ally to a mem­ber of the inter­na­tional law enforce­ment com­mu­nity who has dis­tin­guished him or her­self through ded­i­cated ser­vice and per­sonal achieve­ment in drug inter­dic­tion duties. Nom­i­nees must be active law enforce­ment offi­cers work­ing full or part-time in the field of domes­tic or inter­na­tional drug interdiction.

The Nar­cotics Inter­dic­tion Unit of the Year (NIUY) award will be pre­sented annu­ally to an inter­dic­tion unit of the inter­na­tional law enforce­ment com­mu­nity who has dis­tin­guished them­selves through ded­i­cated ser­vice and per­sonal achieve­ment in drug inter­dic­tion duties. Nom­i­nees must be active law enforce­ment offi­cers work­ing full or part-time in the field of domes­tic or inter­na­tional drug interdiction.

Sub­mis­sion of appli­ca­tions must be com­pleted and returned (post-marked) to INIA no later than April 30, 2014. Please print off the appro­pri­ate appli­ca­tion and mail to INIA,  Attn: Officer/Unit of the Year, PO Box 1757, Spring Hill, TN 37174. Nominations received after this date will not be con­sid­ered for the NIOY or NIUY award. Nom­i­na­tors can be any co-worker, super­vi­sor, other offi­cer or employee of a law enforce­ment agency, or mem­ber of INIA.

All nom­i­nees must have par­tic­i­pated in drug inter­dic­tion as his or her reg­u­lar duties (either full or part time) dur­ing all or part of the rat­ing period. The rat­ing period doc­u­ment­ing the nom­i­nees will be from June 1, 2013 to the fil­ing clo­sure date, April 30, 2014.

Nom­i­na­tion appli­ca­tions should include the fol­low­ing information:

1. The back­ground of the nominee(s);
2. A descrip­tion of the nominee’s accom­plish­ments in his/her/their work assign­ments includ­ing spe­cific sig­nif­i­cant cases involv­ing the inter­dic­tion of nar­cotics, inno­v­a­tive tech­niques in inter­dic­tion, and over­all sta­tis­ti­cal performance;
3. The nominee’s con­tri­bu­tion to his/her/their agency or agen­cies in the nominee’s law enforce­ment community;
4. The nominee’s accom­plish­ments per­son­ally, as a cit­i­zen, in his/her/their com­mu­nity, and/or any addi­tional qual­i­fy­ing infor­ma­tion that will assist in select­ing the most wor­thy can­di­date for the NIOY or NIUY award.

The NIOY recip­i­ent will be awarded life­time mem­ber­ship sta­tus with INIA.