Awards & Special Events
Clarence M. Kelley Award
The Clarence M. Kelley Award is in honor of a man who was influential in raising the standards of leadership. The award is presented to a Criminal Justice Executive in the Kansas City and Metropolitan Area that is an excellent administrator, proactive in their approach and dedicated to improving the criminal justice system.
2009 Recipient - Johnson County Sheriff Frank Denning
Past Recipients
- 2008 Thomas F. Phillips, Jackson County Sheriff
- 2007 Colonel William Seck, Kansas Highway Patrol Superintendent
- 2006 Chief Fred Mills of Independence, Missouri Police Department
- 2005 Kevin Stafford SAC, Federal Bureau of Investigation
- 2004 Todd Graves US Attorney, Western District of Missouri
- 2003 Ronald Miller Chief, Kansas City, KS Police Department
- 2002 Kenneth Francis Chief, Gardner Public Safety Department
- 2001 Richard Easley Chief, Kansas City Police Department
- 2000 Richard Douglas Chief, Overland Park PD
- 1999 Steve Hill US Attourney, Western District of Missouri
- 1998 Paul Morrison Johnson County Prosecuting Attorney
- 1997 Boby Bayless Director of Riverside Public Safety
- 1996 Ellen Hanson Officer, Lenexa PD
- 1995 Steve Cox Officer, Leawood PD
- 1994 Bob Beckers Officer, Grandview, Missouri PD and James R. Graham Executive Director, KC Crime Commission
- 1993 Howard Brown Officer, Blue Springs, MO PD
- 1992 Albert Riederer Jackson County Prosecutor
- 1991 Kris Turnbow Officer, Raytown PD
- 1990 Fred Allenbrand Sheriff, Johnson County, KS
- 1989 Larry A Joiner Officer, KCPD
- 1988 John Foster Officer, Lenexa, KS PD
- 1987 Dave Barton Captain, KCPD
- 1986 Clarence Hoffman Officer, NKC PD
- 1985 William Ouseley Supervisor, FBI
- 1984 W.R. Petrus Captain, MO State Highway Patrol
- 1983 William S. Brandom Clay County Prosecutor
- 1982 Michael A Defoe Head of Strike Force USA, KCMO
- 1981 Norman A Caron KCPD
- 1980 Myron Scafe Overland Park PD