AAST member honored with prestigious award

Bob Jacob holds the J. Stannard Baker Award.

AAST member and former Virginia trooper Leonard R. “Bob” Jacob was presented the prestigious J. Stannard Baker Award for Highway Safety in November.

Sponsored by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the Northwestern University’s Center for Public Safety, this prestigious award annually recognizes individual law enforcement officers and others who have made significant outstanding lifetime contributions to highway safety.

Jacob, director of the Institute of Police Technology and Management, was selected for his sustained, continuous, and career-spanning extraordinary initiative and creativity in promoting virtually every aspect of traffic safety on state, national, and international levels over the past 35 years. Jacob began his traffic safety career as a trooper with the VSP in 1973, became a driving instructor in 1978. He was among the first to attend a Police Traffic Radar Instructor Course in 1980 and formalized a radar training course of instruction. Jacob was promoted to sergeant and transferred to the Training Academy in 1980, where he taught a variety of traffic courses.

Jacob joined IPTM in 1984 where he has served as an instructor, teaching thousands of law enforcement officers from every state, numerous U.S. territories, and several foreign countries; as DUI section coordinator; and as its current director. He has assisted over the past two decades in the development and promotion of myriad law enforcement training curricula, including DUI standardized field sobriety testing, DUI instructor, DUI case preparation and courtroom presentation, police traffic radar instructor, and traffic engineering for police. In 1988 he initiated the annual Symposium on Alcohol and Drug Impaired Driving Enforcement.

Jacob was appointed in 1993 Florida’s Drug Evaluation and Classification coordinator, building it into the second largest DRE program in the United States. He has served on numerous committees, including several IACP committees, the Florida Technical Advisory Committee on DUI Enforcement and Prosecution, Mothers Against Drunk Driving national board of directors, and co-chair of the Florida Police Chiefs’ Association’s Highway Safety Committee.

He is also a member of the AAST Education Committee, helping plan the August 2008 National Law Enforcement Training Conference & Expo.

AAST congratulates Bob Jacob on receiving this extraordinary award.

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