Memo- Presentation for Rosie Griep Award - Anne Marie Buck� Memorandum
To: Rick Getschow, City Manager
CC: Honorable Mayor and members of the City Council
From: Mike Reynolds, Chief of Police
Date: October 28, 2010
Re: Recognition of Anne Marie Buck
Anne Marie Buck received the Rosie Griep Award from the Minnesota Crime Prevention Association
MCPA on October 19`s. The award is a lifetime achievement award for Crime Prevention Specialists.
This award was presented to Anne at the annual MCPA conference held in Brainerd. I have attached
a document of what was read about Anne Marie when she received her award. I request that Anne
Marie Buck be recognized for this achievement at the November 1" Council Meering.
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MN Crime Prevention Association Award
Rosie Griep Award
Anne Marie Buck, Hopkins PO
Imagine being in crime prevention and having to coordinate over 50
neighborhood watch groups. Now imagine that number increased by 25%
because of your great efforts and support from your agency. The Rosie
Griep Legacy Award is given to those that have made a significant
contribution to crime prevention efforts for at least 10 years. For the past
three years this individual has served as Police Services Liaison for the
City of Hopkins, prior to that, she was the Crime prevention Specialist for
the Maple Grove Police Department. Even serving on the MCPA Board of
• Directors as Sgt -at -Arms and contributing to the success of crime
prevention in numerous communities.
As one nominator writes, in Anne Marie's current role within the Hopkins
Police Department she has been busy revitalizing and reinvigorating the
older groups. Now we're not sure if that is groups of older persons or older
groups refocused on crime prevention. For what we know of both Anne
Marie and Hopkins, this could mean both.
As Liaison, her duties include the proverbial alphabet soup of NW, CFMH,
and CPAC. But Ms. Buck goes beyond by overseeing the Nuisance
Property/Rental Ordinance program, Graffiti Task Force, School and
Community In Partnership or SLIP, HAMA which stands for the Hopkins
• Apartment Managers Association, BRCC the award winning Blake Road
Community Collaborative and One Voice, the community drug, alcohol
0 awareness program. In addition to all of this, she has been instrumental
with the success of the JCPP or Joint Community Police Partnership
program which has won a multi -agency international award for Civil Rights.
Her duties in the 7 years prior to Hopkins were much the same with
National Night Out, bike rodeos, business crime prevention and being the
Julie McCoy of the City.
Her passion for her work is never ending. Her supervisors at Hopkins can
honestly say that she puts her heart and soul into each project or task she
is charged with. She takes action and in the spirit of Rosie Griep of Fridley,
she is well known and well respected in the community of her geography
and of crime prevention in Minnesota.
Please join the MN Crime Prevention Association sociation and the Hopkins Police
Department in congratulating Anne Marie Buck as the Rosie Griep Legacy
Award Recipient for 2010.