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Excellence in Chaplaincy


The John A. Price Awards 


The International Conference of Police Chaplains is a professional organization that challenges its members to excellence in their ministry.

The ICPC Executive Committee established the John A. Price Awards in January, 1984, to recognize chaplains doing an outstanding job in their local departments. Effective January 2012 a chaplain will be chosen in one of these two categories:


  • Volunteer Chaplain serving in a smaller department
  • Volunteer Chaplain serving in a larger department

These awards are presented each year at ICPC's Annual Training Seminar. The awards are named in honor of the late Chaplain John A. (Jack) Price who served the Albuquerque, New Mexico, Police Department. He was ICPC's second President.  Jack consistently demonstrated excellence in his own chaplain ministry, encouraged others to excellence, and was willing, over and over, to give recognition when he saw excellence in the chaplaincy of others.

The list of recipients of the Price awards continue to add luster to the awards themselves. Announcement of the recipients has become one of the high points of the annual banquet ceremony.

John A. Price Award, Order of Merit and Special Recognition Award recipients...

2011

Career Chaplain
Chaplain Pam Neal
Knoxville, TN

Volunteer Chaplain
Smaller Department
Chaplain Terry Olthoff
Edgerton, MN

Volunteer Chaplain        
Larger Department
Chaplain Mark Clements
LaCrosse, WI

Order of Merit


Chaplain Wes McDuffie

Grand Prairie, TX


Order of Merit

 

Chaplain Bob Fiers
Indianapolis, IN

Special Recognition
Chaplain Jim Wieging
Chaplain Walt Tully

 
 


2010

Career Chaplain
Chaplain Mindi Russell
Sacramento, CA

Volunteer Chaplain
Smaller Department
Chaplain Dan Lovin    
Mt. Vernon, IL 

Volunteer Chaplain        
Larger Department
Chaplain Arthur Kelley   
St. Louis, MO

Order of Merit
Chaplain Rickey Hargrave
McKinney, TX

Special Recognition

Chaplain Jerry Montgomery
Lakewood, WA

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2009

Career Chaplain
Chaplain Charlie Massey
Courtenay, BC, Canada 

Volunteer Chaplain
Smaller Department
Chaplain Rufus Watkins   
Emeryville, CA 

Volunteer Chaplain        
Larger Department
Chaplain Anthony Palmese  
Ocala, FL

Liaison Award
Detective (Ret.) Stuart O. Nelson
Rockford, IL

Order of Merit
Chaplain Wayne Whitelock
Kibinge WaMuturi
Sgt. Craig Hungler

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2008

Career Chaplain
Chaplain Jack Poe
Oklahoma City, OK 

Volunteer Chaplain
Smaller Department
Chaplain Geroge Grafsky   
  LeSueur, MN 

Volunteer Chaplain        
Larger Department
Chaplain Andrew Kikuta   
Honolulu, HI

Special Recognition 
Chaplain Bill Wentink
Rockford, IL

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2007

Career Chaplain
Chaplain Philip Bacon
Indianapolis, IN 

Volunteer Chaplain
Smaller Department
Chaplain William King III 
Dickenson, TX

Volunteer Chaplain        
Larger Department
Chaplain Richard Sale
Florence, SC

Order of Merit
Chaplain Walter Schott
Mandan, ND

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2006

Career Chaplain
Chaplain Lee Martin
Topeka, KS 

Volunteer Chaplain
Smaller Department
Chaplain Joseph Prudhomme
Fairfield, CA

Volunteer Chaplain        
Larger Department
Chaplain Chuck Van Lente
Grand Rapids, MI

Special Recognition 
Chaplain Bob Cornelius
Chaplain Bob Iaquinto
Stu Nelson

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2005

Career Chaplain
Chaplain Mike Hardgrove
Tulsa, OK

Volunteer Chaplain
Smaller Department
Chaplain Charles R. Mingle
South Plainfield, NJ

Volunteer Chaplain        
Larger Department
Chaplain Jerry Brown
Mobile, AL

Order of Merit
Chaplain Dan Nolta
Tacoma, WA

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2004

Career Chaplain
Chaplain Richard S. Kassel
Indianapolis,IN

Volunteer Chaplain
Smaller Department
Chaplain Walter E. Yarbrough
Malvern, AR

Volunteer Chaplain        
Larger Department
Chaplain Robert A. Mitchell
Clarksville,TN

Order of Merit
Chaplain Jim Powell
LaGrange, KY

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2003

Career Chaplain
Chaplain William Glennie
Phoenix, AZ

Volunteer Chaplain
Smaller Department
Chaplain Judy Hida
Clovis, CA

Volunteer Chaplain
Larger Department
Chaplain John Bromley
Colorado Springs, CO

Order of Merit
Chaplain Michael Dunnill
Manitoba, Canada

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2002

Career Chaplain    
Chaplain Vivian Panton
Jamaica, West Indies

Volunteer Chaplain      
Smaller Department
Chaplain Bill Wagner
Beloit, WI

Volunteer Chaplain
Larger Department
Chaplain Leo Connolly
Columbus, OH

Order of Merit
Chaplain Robert Cornelius
Case Grande, AZ

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2001

Career Chaplain          
Chaplain Charles R. Lorrain
Newcastle, CA

Volunteer Chaplain
Smaller Department
Chaplain James G. Powell
LaGrange, KY

Volunteer Chaplain
Larger Department
Chaplain Bernard C. White
Elmwood Park, IL

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2000

Career Chaplain
Chaplain Russell Guppy
Beaverton, OR

Volunteer Chaplain
Smaller Department
Chaplain Walton Tully
Newton Falls, OH

Volunteer Chaplain
Larger Department
Chaplain W. B. Barnes
Vallejo, CA

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1999

Career Chaplain       
Chaplain David Bridgen
San Jose, CA

Volunteer Chaplain
Smaller Department
Chaplain Jonathon Kosec
Mt. Horeb, WI

Volunteer Chaplain
Larger Department
Chaplain Moshe Wolf
Chicago, IL

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1998

Career Chaplain          
Chaplain Michael McCullough
Los Angeles, CA

Volunteer Chaplain
Smaller Department
Chaplain Andy Toopes
Benton, AR

Volunteer Chaplain
Larger Department
Chaplain Joe Williams, FBI
Oklahoma City, OK

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1997

Career Chaplain
Chaplain Kenneth Gaydos
Edmonds, WA

Volunteer Chaplain
Smaller Department
Chaplain Lowell Lawson
Canton, GA

Volunteer Chaplain
Larger Department
Chaplain Jacques Robert
Hull, Quebec Canada

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1996

Career Chaplain        
Chaplain Allan Higgs
Regina, Saskatchewan
Canada

Volunteer Chaplain
Smaller Department
Chaplain David Hoag
New Smyrna Beach, FL

Volunteer Chaplain
Larger Department
Chaplain Phyllis Poe
Oklahoma City, OK

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1995

Career Chaplain
Chaplain Bert McQueen
Anchorage, AK

Volunteer Chaplain
Smaller Department
Chaplain Joanne Reuter
O'Fallon, MI

Volunteer Chaplain
Larger Department
Chaplain Robert Chisenhall
St. Louis County, MI

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1994 Career Chaplain                
Chaplain Harold Elliott
Arlington, TX

Volunteer Chaplain
Smaller Department
Chaplain Lisle J. Kauffman
Round Lake Beach, IL

Volunteer Chaplain
Larger Department
Chaplain Stephen M. Passamaneck
Los Angeles, CA

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