Australia & Queensland win big at IPMA in Mexico!
Hosted in Merida-Mexico, Deputy Commissioner Stephan Gollschewski and Principal Consultant Todd Hunt attended the IPMA 2019 Project Management Excellence Awards where the Queensland Police Service (QPS) received the 2019 Change Management/Product Development/Marketing Project of the Year Gold Award.
The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, third-largest global sporting event and biggest in Australia this decade, provided unprecedented operational challenges for the QPS. With a bid guarantee of providing a safe and secure Games environment for 6,500 international athletes and officials, 1.6 million spectators and impacted communities, the QPS established the Commonwealth Games Group to deliver the $85M ‘Operation Sentinel’ project. This included the preceding Queens Baton Relay conducted across 71 Nations/Territories. With a cultural shift in policing posture required to support the visitor experience, QPS successfully delivered an incident-free, safe and secure Games under budget.
Congratulations to the team on the win!!