2012 J. STANNARD BAKER AWARD WINNERS Traffic Sergeant ...

2012 J. STANNARD BAKER AWARD WINNERSTraffic Sergeant Mark D. WrightOntario Provincial PoliceOrillia, OntarioTraffic Sergeant Mark D. Wright was selected a 2012 recipientof this prestigious award for his sustained, continuous, andcareer-spanning extraordinary initiative and creativity indeveloping, implementing, standardizing, and promotingmyriad aspects of traffic crash investigation within theProvince of Ontario and throughout Canada during his 28years of law enforcement service.Traffic Sergeant Wright has specialized in traffic-relatedassignments since 1989, being assigned as a breathalyzertechnician, a hit-and-run collision detective, and a collisionreconstruction apprentice during his employment with theToronto Police Service. His devotion to traffic crash investigation only has intensifiedwith the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), leading its Technical Collision Investigationand Reconstruction Program since 2001.Traffic Sergeant Wright’s most significant professional accomplishments to date are:• Creating the first standard operating procedure for the Technical CollisionInvestigation and Reconstruction Program• Developing and facilitating numerous training courses aligning the OPP withthe rest of Canada and North America• Writing training manuals and course standards for such programs as AutoSketch and MapScenes• Implementing mandatory annual requalification for OPP’s technical collisioninvestigators and adopting the Accreditation Commission for Traffic AccidentReconstruction’s (ACTAR’s) program for OPP’s reconstructionists• Initiating two audits of the Technical Collision Investigation andReconstruction Program aimed at improving investigative excellence,identifying training issues, and providing appropriate mentorship• Addressing the need to conduct adequate investigations of motorized snowvehicle and all-terrain vehicle collisions, which was selected for presentationat the 2012 Canadian Multidisciplinary Road Safety ConferenceTraffic Sergeant Wright is a member of the Collision Investigation Subcommittee of theOntario Association of Chiefs of Police; currently is Vice Chair of ACTAR’s GoverningBoard of Directors; and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University ofToronto, majoring in criminology.

Traffic Sergeant Wright exemplifies the excellence inherent in OPP’s Technical CollisionInvestigation and Reconstruction Program. His career-wise efforts have standardizedand broadened crash investigation by striving consistently to identify and mitigate bothhuman and environmental contributing circumstances, as well as to apply traffic incidentmanagement principles, especially those reducing the length of road closures. Theresidents of Ontario, as well as virtually all aspects of collision investigation, havebenefited greatly from Traffic Sergeant Wright’s dedication to traffic duty.Chief Howard B. HallRoanoke County Police DepartmentRoanoke, VirginiaChief Howard B. Hall was selected a 2012 recipient of thisprestigious award for his sustained, continuous, and careerspanningextraordinary initiative and creativity in developing,implementing, and promoting a variety of traffic safety andenforcement programs within Baltimore County, Maryland, andthroughout the United States during his 25 years’ service with theBaltimore County Police Department.Chief Hall’s most significant professional accomplishments todate are:• Successfully implementing in the Baltimore County Police Department, Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS) and presentingDDACTS’ benefits in numerous locations throughout the United States• Operating the Baltimore County Community Traffic Safety Program• Receiving Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration grant-funding in 2010,to implement an electronic citation system and to develop training toencourage officers to initiate traffic stops on those holding commercial driver’slicenses• Instituting nighttime seatbelt enforcement in Baltimore County• Developing in Baltimore County an automated towing dispatch andmanagement system to clear crash scenes more promptly and effectively• Organizing a community speed program that allows citizen groups to borrowradar units to undertake neighborhood speed surveys• Becoming certified as a Drug Recognition Expert (DRE), a DRE instructor,and Baltimore County’s first DRE expert in the District Court of Maryland• Qualifying as an instructor in the administration of standard field sobriety tests(SFST)The Chief holds a Master of Public Administration degree, as well as a GraduateCertificate in Police Administration, from the University of Baltimore and a Bachelor ofArts degree from the University of Maryland. He is graduate of the 172 nd Session of theFBI National Academy and is a past president of the Maryland/Delaware Chapter of theFBI National Academy Associates. Chief Hall has been a member of the IACP Highway

Safety Committee since 2009, and of the Maryland Chiefs of Police Association’s TrafficSafety Committee since 2008; an adjunct instructor at the Institute of Police Technologyand Management since 1993; and an assessor/team leader for the Commission onAccreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. He is a recipient of the National HighwayTraffic Safety Administration’s National Public Service Award and of the BaltimoreCounty Police Foundation’s Distinguished Contribution to the Profession Award.Howard retired from the Baltimore County Police Department on June 30, 2012, asCommander of the Operations Support Section. He was appointed Chief of Police ofRoanoke County, Virginia, on July 24, 2012, and was sworn into office on August 13,2012.Lieutenant/Colonel (Retired) M. Anthony PadillaColorado State PatrolArvada, ColoradoLieutenant/Colonel (Retired) M. Anthony Padilla was selecteda 2012 recipient of this prestigious award for his sustained,continuous, and career-spanning extraordinary initiative andcreativity in establishing, implementing, and promoting trafficsafety programs within the State of Colorado.Anthony began his 35-year law enforcement career as acommunications officer and later as the communicationssupervisor with the Walsenburg, Colorado, PoliceDepartment, where he established a program encouragingpublic-reporting of impaired drivers. He subsequently servedas a deputy with the Huerfano County, Colorado, Sheriff’sDepartment, during which time he was instrumental in the formation of a trafficenforcement unit. During his early years with the Colorado State Patrol, hedistinguished himself as a prolific enforcer of speed and impaired driving laws and as adeveloper of traffic safety messages. In conjunction with the National Safety Council,he was instrumental in initiating the Alive at 25 driver’s education program in highschools. Colonel Padilla established the Colorado child passenger safety program,which provides child safety seats to underprivileged families, and placed troopers inschool buses and on trains to identify those illegally passing school buses anddisregarding railroad crossing gates.Colonel Padilla was a member of the IACP Highway Safety Committee’s LawEnforcement Stops and Safety Subcommittee (LESSS) between 2004 and 2012; heserved as its chair for four years, during which time LESSS produced two roll-callvideos: Saving Lives . . . One Stop At A Time (2008) and Is Today Your Day? (2010).He judged IACP National Law Enforcement Challenge applications and is an adjunctinstructor in Northwestern University Center for Public Safety's School of Police Staffand Command, of which he is a graduate. He also is a graduate of the FBI NationalAcademy and of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management.