The Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC) has won the 2007 Noblis Innovations Award in Homeland Security. The award, which is given by Noblis and the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, seeks to identify, explore, and highlight creative and effective government and public-private partnership solutions to address the nation's homeland security concerns. The award was given by Noblis to WASPC and local first responders during a ceremony at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center in Seattle on September 6.
WASPC is working to protect Washington state critical infrastructure such as state ferries, public courthouses, port facilities, convention centers and other sites including all K-12
schools with a secure Web-based system using Prepared Response (