Awards

January 19, 2012 - And the NEXT Hulon Willis Award is presented to... 

Tracy Connor was awarded the prestigeous Hulon Willis Award from the CC/CH Crime Solvers Board of Directors for her outstanding efforts in 2011.  The award, in honor of a man well known by Crime Solvers and the law-enforcement community, is presented as an internal award based on a member's "above and beyond" efforts to forward the Crime Solvers concept.  Tracy's efforts were seen all throughout the year in 2011, but were punctuated by her organization of the program's first ever fundraising bowling tournament.  With very little time to plan and execute, the event raised much needed funds for the reward-payment portion of the program.  She is pictured here with the daughter of Mr. Hulon Willis, Kimberly Willis-Miles.  CONGRATULATIONS to Tracy!  Congratulations, also, are in order to Board Member Harris Bacon, to whom was presented the Jim Bourque Founders Award, recognizing long term service in excellence to the program.  Harris has been the program's Golf Committee chairperson for the last 19 YEARS!

September 25, 2010 – Martin Stith Wins State Award

Our program recently submitted Mr. Martin Stith, Production Administrator for Comcast Cablevision, to the Virginia Crime Stoppers Association for their Media Representative of the Year award, and he did, in fact, win the award.  It was presented to him in Smithfield, Virginia at the Sept. 24-26 state conference.
Mr. Stith and his crew produce our yearly golf tournament PSA; the golf tournament being our largest revenue generator.  In addition, Mr. Stith works with Comcast’s corporate folks to schedule airtime for our unsolved crime PSAs, or “Crime of the Week” segments.  Without his assistance, very few would even know that Chesterfield and Colonial Heights had a Crime Solvers program.  In 2008, Mr. Stith received the prestigeous “Hulon Willis Award” from OUR Board of Directors for his above and beyond service to our program, and this State recognition was yet another well-deserved acknowledgement of Mr. Stith’s support of the Crime Solvers mission.  CONGRATULATIONS, Martin!

April 16, 2010 - Ellis Britton Recognized for Production Work Ellis Britton, one of several employees who are members of Chesterfield County's Technical Services Unit (TSU), received an award for her dedicated assistance with the production of Crime Solvers' weekly "Crime of the Week" and "Fugitives of the Week" segments.  Britton took the production task for Crime Solvers more than 3 years ago and has been faithful with it ever since.

October 22, 2009 - Crime Solvers Unit Receives Award During the 2009 Chesterfield County Police Department's Award Ceremony, the Crime Solvers Unit (police department staff assigned to work with the Crime Solvers Board of Directors) received a Unit Citation for their efforts in researching and helping implement the Text-A-Tip initiative.  Months of research, hundreds of phone calls, and LOTS of inter-office debates led to the acquisition of TipSoft v.5 from Anderson Software.  This software package gives Crime Solvers the ability to take tips via the Web site (crimesolvers.net) and via SMS (or text messaging) while maintaining a tipsters complete anonymity. (pictured left to right: Sgt. L. Arrington, Colonel T. Dupuis, Mrs. R. Adams, Det. J. Conner, Det. K. Bacon)