Oscar Kilo 2023 Award Winners Announced

 

Oscar Kilo, the National Police Wellbeing Service have announced the winners of their annual awards held 13 July 2023, during a celebratory event at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester. The event was facilitated by Oscar Kilo Service Director Andy Rhodes and Deputy CEO for the College of Policing Nick Bayley. 

This was the first time for three years that they had been able to get everyone together to announce the winners of the OK Awards live.

The attendees were made up of, individuals who had been crucial to the success of their projects, wellbeing and occupational health leads and representatives from their chief officer teams. They got the chance to mix with their counterparts from across the country, sharing ideas and good practice and having a catch up.

The Oscar Kilo Awards have been created to recognise the amazing work that has been done and continues to be done, across UK policing when it comes to providing wellbeing support for the people who work for you.

They take place each year and are judged by the National Police Wellbeing Service senior leadership team alongside external judges Sir Professor Cary Cooper, co-chair of the National Forum for Health and Wellbeing and president of CIPD and Linda Hindle, Engagement lead for police, fire and ambulance services Office for Health Improvement and Disparities.

The award categories reflect the seven areas of the Blue Light Wellbeing Framework (BLWF):

• Leadership
• Absence management
• Creating the environment
• Mental health
• Personal resilience
• Protecting the workforce
• Occupational health

This year they also included a ‘special non police award’, for other organisations such as UK fire and rescue services who are working towards completing the BLWF and a 'Crisis Support' award. 

Below is a list of the winning forces. 

You can read all about their winning projects and see the photos on their website here

Oscar Kilo award winners 2023 | Oscar Kilo 

Leadership:

Winner: Gloucestershire Constabulary - Embedding wellbeing into leadership

Runner-up: Merseyside Police - Leadership and me 

Absence management:

Winner: Greater Manchester Police - Enhancing occupational health

Runner-up; Leicestershire Police - The Rosemary Conley 28-day immunity plan

Creating the environment:

Winner: Lincolnshire Police - Wellbeing collective

Runner-up: Greater Manchester Police - GMP armed forces network

Mental health:

Winner: Gwent Police - Gwent wellbeing team

Runner-up - Lincolnshire Police - Psychological screening programme

Personal resilience:

Winner: Durham Constabulary - Supporting personal financial resilience 

Runner-up: West Midlands Police - Project alcohol experiment

Protecting the workforce:

Winner: Cheshire Constabulary - Protecting the workforce wellbeing programme

Runners-up: Humberside Police - Stay well campaign and Bedfordshire Police - Welfare and benevolent fund

Occupational health:

Winner: Merseyside Police - Occupational health relaunch

Runner-up: Bedfordshire Police - Wellbeing bites

 

Special awards:

 

Non-Home Office force:

Winner: Ministry of Defence Police - MDPfit occupational fitness, health and wellbeing programme

Crisis Support

Winner: Greater Manchester Police: Operation Manteline - Welfare strategy following the Manchester arena bombing.