Crime Stoppers Guelph Wellington (CSGW) has been recognized with several provincial awards.
CSGW was given five awards at the 2024 Ontario Association of Crime Stoppers online Annual General Meeting and Training Conference.
The online conference featured the annual awards ceremony, where programs across Ontario were recognized for their efforts in 2023.
CSGW won awards in its population range for Best Digital Effort for its Fraud Talk series, Best Print Feature for the Road Sign campaign, Best Video Feature for an episode of Guelph Life, Best Radio Feature, and the Marla Moon Memorial Award of Excellence. That award is given annually to the program that demonstrates active engagement in all areas of Crime Stoppers, specifically media, police, and community.
This is the ninth year running that CSGW won the Marla Moon Memorial Award.
CSGW Board Chair Dave Elloway responded to the recognition for the previous year.
“CSGW is honoured and humbled to receive these awards of excellence from OACS. The breadth of the awards covering digital, print, video, radio, and the overall program award in our size category for the 9th time, speaks to the dedication and hard work that makes this program successful year after year,” he said. “The commitment of staff and the volunteer board to support, nurture and grow the success of the program is helping to make Wellington County and Guelph a safer community by creating a safe space to Say It Here.”
Program Coordinator Sarah Bowers-Peter says the awards demonstrate the impact CSGW has in the community.
“It’s exciting to be recognized for the work we do in the City of Guelph and County of Wellington. We hope these awards reinforce to our community that the work we do is being recognized across the province and that Crime Stoppers is the best option to anonymously and confidentially report crime,” she stated.