This award  is presented to the person who has shown a sustained contribution to the Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Units and a continuous effort to enhance the professionalization of the criminal intelligence profession.  Dr. Ratcliffe has taught our Strategic Analysis workshop at the LEIU/IALEIA conference (part of the Fundamentals of Intelligence certification track) for the last several years.  He also wrote a significant chapter in our soon to be released joint publication, “Criminal Intelligence in the 21st Century’.  Dr. Ratcliffe served 11 years with the Metropolitan Police in London (UK) on patrol duties, in an intelligence and information unit, and as a member of the Diplomatic Protection Group.  Dr. Ratcliffe was a senior research analyst with the Australian Institute of Criminology, where he conducted one of the first evaluations of an intelligence-led policing operation.  He has published over 50 research articles in the areas of spatial analysis, crime reduction, and intelligence-led policing.  Dr. Ratcliffe has also published four books: GIS and Crime Mapping (Wiley, 2005), Policing Illegal Drug Markets (Criminal Justice Press, 2005), Intelligence-Led Policing (Willan Publishing, 2008) and Strategic Thinking in Criminal Intelligence (Federation Press, 2004).  The second edition of Strategic Thinking in Criminal Intelligence was published in April 2009. The LEIU Executive Board took this opportunity to recognize Dr. Ratcliffe for his hard work, support to LEIU and the criminal intelligence community, and presented him with this award as a token of our esteem and appreciation.