Pamela Scanlon Receives 2015 IJIS Institute Shumate Award

ASHBURN, Va. - Feb. 3, 2015 - PRLog -- The IJIS Institute (www.ijis.org), a nonprofit organization that focuses on mission‐critical information sharing for justice, public safety, and homeland security, is pleased to announce that Pamela Scanlon, executive director of the Automated Regional Justice Information System (ARJIS), is the recipient of the organization’s Robert P. Shumate National Public Safety and Justice Contributor to Excellence Award. The award was presented at the IJIS Institute’s Badge & Tech Benefit & Awards Dinner on January 22, 2015, in Arlington, Virginia.

IJIS Institute Executive Director, Steve Ambrosini, said, “Pam is well known for her work in facilitating cross-agency cooperation to achieve information sharing amongst 11,000 justice personnel in the Southern California region. Pam’s contributions to the justice community don’t stop in California. Her influence is spread across the nation through her participation on many committees and boards.”

Scanlon has over 25 years of experience in law enforcement. From her creation one of the first crime analysis units in the nation, to being named executive director of ARJIS in 1998, Pam has been a leader in the justice and public safety community.

Scanlon’s other contributions to the law enforcement and justice community include numerous community activities. She has served as chair of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) CJIS Committee, as the past President of IACP Law Enforcement Information Management (LEIM) Board, as a member of the California Statewide Data Sharing Task Force, founding member of Justice Information Sharing Practitioners (JISP) Board, on the COPLINK Customer Advisory Board, and co-chair of the IJIS Institute’s Task Force examining the use of automated license plate readers and imaging technology.

The Robert P. Shumate National Public Safety and Justice Contributor to Excellence Award, named for the first president of the IJIS Institute, is presented annually by the Institute to the person from either industry or the public sector who made the most valuable contribution to justice and public safety information sharing.

For more information about the Shumate Award, please visit http://www.ijis.org/?page=Awards.