The CCMTA-Police Partnership Award honours the achievements of active individual police officers, units or their overall service in developing key relationships with those private or government sector agencies involved in highway transportation safety at the local, regional, provincial/territorial or national level. The purpose of this award is to identify and to recognize police involvement in building significant partnerships. These partnership activities should result in the development and/or implementation of unique strategies and/or programs that focus on reducing injuries and saving lives, while raising awareness within the police community and the public to make Canada’s roads the safest in the world by 2010.

The focus of this award is sustained partnership development. CCMTA’s Road Safety Vision 2010 aims to raise awareness of road safety issues and improve collaboration and cooperation among road safety agencies. The necessity of the police community to develop strategic relationships with their highway safety partners, who by working together, can collectively make road travel safer, is paramount. Submissions do not require the inclusion of data, which identifies actual injury or life saving reduction statistics but should explain the many benefits and outcomes realized through the combined efforts of the working relationship.