CEP Awards 2019
The second edition of the CEP awards took place during the General Assembly in Dublin, Ireland. For this second edition a fifth category had been added to the already existing four, on the development of a new probation system.
The 5 winners were also put in the spotlight on the CEP website:
- Rehabilitation in the community
- Public Protection
- Research
- Social Inclusion
- Development national probation services
With the awards, CEP would like to celebrate outstanding contributions to probation within Europe. We were glad to receive all the impressive submissions from which the winners are chosen. Congratulations!
For each category also “runners-up” were announced – submissions that had not been awarded but looked very promising.
Winner is Fiona Deacon for the Women’s Problem Solving Court, Manchester and Salford Magistrates Court.
The CEP award for the category of Rehabilitation in Community was handed at the CEP Conference on Alternatives to detention in Bucharest by Mr. Mr. Mihai Dima, General Director of the Romanian National Probation Directorate and Mr. Gerry McNally, President of CEP. As Ms. Fiona Deacon could unfortunately not attend the conference, the award received by her colleague, Ms. Katie Thomson.
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Winner is the Resettle project – Intensive Intervention Risk Management Service by the National Probation Service in England.
The CEP award for the category of Public Protection was handed at the CEP Conference on Alternatives to detention in Bucharest by Mr. Mihai Dima, General Director of the Romanian National Probation Directorate and Mr. William Rentzmann, board member of CEP and member of the CEP Awards Jury. The award received by Ms. Sandra Oluonye, Assistant Chief Officer at the National Probation Service.
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Winner is Professor Peter Raynor from the department of Criminology, Swansea University, for his ‘Jersey Supervision Skills Study’.

Winner is Reclassering Nederland (Dutch Probation Services) for the Circles of Support and Accountability, an outstanding contribution to the integration of probation clients in the community.
The CEP award for the category of Social Inclusion was handed at the CEP Conference on Alternatives to detention in Bucharest by Mr. Mihai Dima, General Director of the Romanian National Probation Directorate and Mr. Willem van der Brugge, Secretary General of CEP member of the CEP Awards Jury. The award is received by Mr. Martin Lambermon, COSA volunteer and Mr. Sjef van Gennip, General Director of Reclassering Nederland.

For the second edition of the CEP Awards, we introduced a new category: ‘Development of National Probation Services’. This award is for CEP members jurisdictions, who have made significant progress in developing probation services at a national level over the past three years. It is aimed at jurisdictions which are either in the process of establishing a new probation service or have introduced significant changes to the way probation is delivered. The Croatian Probation Service is the first one to win this CEP Award.


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