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Public Sector Innovation and Leadership Award

Communications Interoperability Technology Interest Group

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Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police : Life Member

Steve Palmer’s track record of building and leading organizations to support public safety research and innovation includes raising over $100 Million focused on public safety emerging technologies, practices for emergency management, counter terrorism, law enforcement safety and security. A Professional Engineer and former Executive Director of the Collaborative Centre for Justice and Safety, the Canadian Institute for Public Safety Research and Treatment and the Canadian Police Research Centre where he brought together a critical mass of leading edge research and education to focus on the diverse requirements of the public safety and the responder communities.

He is a Life Member of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police. He received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, the CATA award for Public Sector Innovation and Leadership and was recognized for Leadership that Made a Difference by the Communications Interoperability Technology Interest Group for his role as a champion for interoperability in Canada.

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Towards Public Safety Broadband Implementation #PSBN150

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Steve Palmer - Executive Director, Canadian Police Research Centre; and,  Shereen Benzvy Miller - Director General, Office of Small and Medium Enterprises, Public Works and Government Services, the winners of  the Open Text, Public Sector Leadership presented at the 2011 CATAAlliance Innovation Awards Gala. 

The Public Sector Leadership Award, sponsored by Open Text, is presented to a leading individual from the public sector to recognize a significant contribution to the development and application of advanced technology in Canada. The recipient must have demonstrated creativity and leadership in the design and implementation of policies and programs to support the development and application of advanced technology. The recipient will have been consistent in supporting technology and its application. Programs initiated by the recipient must have provided important support to the developers of technology as well as to industries which will benefit from its use.

CATA Public Sector Innovation Award Winners: CPRC and Public Works Canada

A First Responder panel on Building a National Public Safety Broadband  Network was chaired by Steve Palmer, Director, Science and Technology Transition, Defence R&D Canada. He described the new LTE Test-Bed pilot in the context of a trend towards a $2-billion investment in mobile communications in Canada.  Michael Sullivan, Division Chief Communications, Ottawa Fire Services, said that through the Test-Bed, they will be piloting projects in a real-world environment.  They will be able to interact with industry to find new ways to make advantageous choices. The LTE Test-Bed will reach the Ottawa core and the city of Gatineau, Québec, making it an interprovincial program.

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