Every year, IOACIS recognizes the men and women in law enforcement for their outstanding work specializing in Asian Crimes and Organized Crime. Nominations are submitted by their colleagues and supervisors for the award selections.
If you have a deserving colleague or know of someone in law enforcement that you would like to nominate, please submit a brief biography of the nominee and essay of why you think they should be recognized.
Award selections will be made after the IOACIS Award Committee reviews all nominations and notified prior to the upcoming International Conference on Asian Organized Crime and Terrorism (ICAOCT) www.icaoct.com. Awards will be presented during the Awards Banquet at the ICAOCT Conference.
Please submit the nomination along with your name, agency of employment, title or rank, address, contact number and email address to director@ioacis.com or mail to:
IOACIS
PO Box 612
N. Scituate, MA 02060-0612
CONGRATULATIONS!! to this year's recipient 2009:
United States Attorney Edward H. Kubo, Jr.
United States Attorney’s Office - Honolulu District
Supervisory Special Agent Kerry Smith
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Los Angeles Division - West Covina California
Past Award recipients:
2008
Sergeant Len Gleim (Fresno Police Department) - IOACIS Lifetime Achievement Award in Law Enforcement
2007
James Carl Stern (Federal Bureau of Investigation- Supervisory Special Agent Unit Chief - Asian / African Criminal Enterprise Unit) - IOACIS Lifetime Achievement Award in Law Enforcement
2006 - IOACIS Lifetime Achievement Award in Law Enforcement
Daniel Foley (San Francisco Police Department)
2005
Peter Clark (Metropolitan Police Service, London, UK) - IOACIS Award for Excellence in Law Enforcement
Maryann Francischelli (DHS-ICE) - IOACIS Outstanding Advocate Award of Excellence in Asian Organized Crime
Michael S. Hines (New York Police Department, New York) - IOACIS Lifetime Achievement Award in Law Enforcement
Eric Johnson (US Attorney's Office) - IOACIS Outstanding Prosecutorial Award of Excellence in Asian Organized Crime
Anthony Scandiffio (DHS-ICE) - IOACIS Outstanding Case Recognition in Asian Organized Crime
2004
Dr. Henry C. Lee (Connecticut State Police Forensics) - IOACIS Award of Excellence in Law EnforcementJennifer French (Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations) - IOACIS Outstanding Investigator of the Year Award in Asian Organized Crime
Carla Freedman (New York District Attorney’s Office) - IOACIS Outstanding Prosecutorial Award of Excellence in Asian Organized CrimeMichael E. Ahern (US Postal Inspection Service) - IOACIS Outstanding Advocate Award of Excellence in Asian Organized Crime
Ron Lee ( Monterey Park Police Department, California) - IOACIS Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Asian Organized Crime2003
Kingman Wong (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and Anthony Lau (Federal Bureau of Investigation) - IOACIS Award for Excellence in Law Enforcement
Perry Woo (US Customs Service), Brian Leary (US Secret Service), Thomas Bergman (Diplomatic Security Services), Charles Ex (Chicago Police Department) and Thomas Kasva - IOACIS Outstanding Investigative Award for Law Enforcement in Asian Crimes
Lieutenant Ron Mark (City of Gardena Police Department, California) - IOACIS Community Service Award in Law Enforcement
Susan Hanson-Philbrick (US Attorney's Office) - IOACIS Outstanding Prosecutorial Award of Excellence in Asian Organized Crime