Nominations are invited for the annual "Alan Rusling Memorial Award"; they should be either by Air Mail letter to my Cape Town address or by e-mail to myself, the closing date being 31st October 2009. All nominations will be acknowledged. If you reveived the e-mail inviting nominations you will note that the clsoing date has been extended to allow for publication in the Autumn Griff.

The nominations, with full supporting reasons, should be made by individuals in confidence. E-mail nominations should be addressed to neil@neilrusling.com, they must not be made via the Yahoo Group address and any received in this manner will be disqualified. Likewise, nominations should not be discussed in open meetings as this breaches confidentiality and can cause embarrassment to unsuccessful nominees.

The criteria for the award is that the Recipient shall, in the view of the adjudicators, have rendered outstanding service to the Royal Air Force Police Association as a whole, a Branch of the Association, or both. My fellow Life Vice-Presidents, Steve Cattell & David Wardell, who are also past recipients, have agreed to act as Independant Adjudicators.

The identity of the Recipient will be announced during the last quarter of 2009. A list of previous recipients and a 'pen picture' of my Father can be found by going to http://www.neilrusling.com/ARinfo.htm

Neil Rusling