112 Awards

The 112 Awards intend to recognize and congratulate individuals and organizations which have shown evidence of extraordinary behaviour when facing an emergency situation and/or which contributed to improving emergency situation management and/or information on this European emergency call number and/or improved accessibility of emergency services for people with disabilities and/or connected vehicles to emergency services.

112 Awards will be delivered to individuals and organizations for:

• Outstanding Citizen Award, Krystian Drozdek, Poland
• Outstanding First Responder, Dorota Królak, Łódź Police, Poland
• Outstanding 112 Call Centre, Dutch National 112 Centre, the Netherlands
• Outstanding Emergency Service Initiative, London Metropolitan Police, United Kingdom
• Outstanding Contribution to Public Warning, Mark Wood, Cellular Emergency Alert Systems Association, United Kingdom
• Outstanding Education on 112, Administration for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief, Slovenia
• Outstanding Political Initiative, Commissioner Viviane Reding & European Parliament Vice-President Diana Wallis

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Confirmation of participation received so far:

• Diana Wallis, Vice-President of the European Parliament

• Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society

• Alain Hutchinson, Member of the European Parliament

• Gérard Onesta, Vice-President of the European Parliament

• Marc Tarabella, Minister of Formation, Wallonia Region, Belgium

• Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Member of the European Parliament, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament.

• Didier Reynders, Vice-Prime Minister of Belgium

• Dushana Zdravkova, Member of the European Parliament

• Kathy Sinnott, Member of the European Parliament

• Marie Arena, Belgian Minister for Pension, Social Integration and Big Cities

• Malcolm Harbour, Member of the European Parliament

• Giovanna Corda, Member of the European Parliament

• Alexander Alvaro, Member of the European Parliament

• Adina Valean, Member of the European Parliament

• Olivier Chastel, Belgian State Secretary for Foreign Affairs (represented by his special advisor Luc Paque)

• Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Member of the European Parliament

• Dr Raed Arrafat, State Secretary for Health, Romania

• M. Witold Drozdz, Deputy Minister of the Interior and Administration, Poland