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Awards and Recognition

Humility Page Much thought and many hours have gone into the creation of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department Website. For our efforts we have had some recognition. We take great pride in the awards we have received and we humbly put them here for you to see.

Red Light Blue Light Award of Merit
Award of Merit

On March 2, 2000, we received our first award of the year. The award message read: "your site, Fort Lauderdale Police Department, has been selected to receive our "Red Light Blue Light Award of Merit"!

Judge Martin wrote that we have an outstanding police "website that meets our award criteria!

Again, Congratulations, and thank you for adding a great site to the web!"

J. R. Martin

Thanks, Judge!

On December 2, 1999, we received the following message from Augie Caamano of the Hudson County (New Jersey) Sheriff's Office...

"Your site is one of the few law enforcement sites on the WWW that truly communicates to the viewer the great deal of time and effort put into its creation. Its clever use of both graphics and content, made it an easy decision to give it the award."

Thanks again, Augie

The Gold Tin Award - 1999


On August 30, 1999, we were notified that our Mounted Police Webpage was selected as a featured site in StudyWeb as one of the best educational resources on the Web.

StudyWeb is one of the Internet's premier sites for educational resources for students and teachers. Since 1996, StudyWeb's expert reviewers have scoured the Internet to select only the finest sites to be included in StudyWeb's listing of educational links. Each site in StudyWeb includes a detailed review describing its editorial and visual merits.

StudyWeb
StudyWeb

On May 14, 1999, we received the following e-message:

"It is my distinct pleasure to notify you, on behalf of the men and women of Operation Blue Ridge Thunder: America's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, and the Bedford County Va. Sheriff's Office that your Ft. Lauderdale Police Dept. website has been carefully chosen to receive the following awards..."

  1. Safe Surfin'--Thunderized Award
  2. Blue Ridge Thunder Internet Excellence Award
  3. BCSO 5-Star Award for Excellence on the Web

Thank you, and congratulations.

Don Garlock, Jr.

5-Star Site     Safe Surfin'     Internet Excellence

In May, 1999, our Web site was the SITE OF THE MONTH in the Law Enforcement Internet Intelligence Report. We are very proud of this honor. Our thanks go out to Henry M. Quinlan, Publisher.

Law Enforcement Internet Intelligence Report

On March 4, 1999, FLPD Online received the Webmaster Confidence Award. Presented by World Class Photo Ads, the award is for "getting it just right." We thank Dave Kroll for his confidence.

Webmaster Confidence Award

The Police Guide & Police Collector News Online awarded the FLPD website their Police Guide Award for excellence on February 24, 1999. We are greatful.

Police Guide Award

The NASSAU COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT, Fifth Precinct, Long Island, New York awarded our site the Fighting Lion Award in January, 1999.

Fighting Lion

In January, 1999, our site was selected as a featured site on the Web of Justice. It was listed under the "featured sites" link on the main Web of Justice Page and is listed on the Web of Justice site.

Tim Burns, Justice Programs Analyst, said: "This law enforcement site is an excellent example of effective use of the Internet for information dissemination. The site has information on everything from employment and training to press releases, phone numbers, missing persons, community policing, and department information. Very nicely done."

Thanks, Tim.

Web of Justice

On October 24, 1998, Shryock Communications recognized the FLPD Web site with their "To Protect & To Serve" Award. Shryock Communications recognizes a limited number of law enforcement Web sites each year. We proudly display our certificate here.

To Protect & To Serve Award

We were honored during the week of July 12 - 18, 1998, when we were named as "Site of the Week" by LEO LINKS.

LEO Site of the Week

On February 15, 1997, we were awarded the "TOP COP AWARD".
We are proud to display the graphic given to us by Rick at netport.com

Top Cop Award graphic

The "Best of the Web Award" has been bestowed on this site. The site was judged in the categories of 1. Attraction and Design, 2. Creativity, 3. Navigational Aids, 4. Legibility, spelling, and grammar, 5. Use of HTML code, and 6. Contribution to the "net"

BOW Award Graphic

This site has been awarded the Cops On The Net Award. The award is given by Mack Pettigrew who is located in Ontario, Canada. Thanks Mack!

Cops On Line Award

On February 23, 1997, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department Webmaster appeared on the Cop Net radio talk show. The show's host, Bill Erfurth, talked took calls from people who praised the content and layout of our site. We thank Cop Net for honoring our Web efforts.

Cop Net Police Talk Radio

The Fort Lauderdale Police Department Website has been featured in the Sun Sentinel and on the NBC6 Evening News and on the NBC6/MSNBC Website.

We have also been awarded the Gold Tin Award.

The Gold Tin Award

We are proud to announce that on February 1, 1997, we were awarded the Blue Knight Award for excellence in a law enforcement web site. This citation is awarded by Ron Fleischer of the Windsor (Colorado) Police Department.

The Blue Knight Award

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