Category 4 - Advanced Digital Forensics in Digital Intelligence and Investigation supported by subject matter expertise from sponsor Eurofins Forensic Services. Incredible work debated by panel with most notable nominations from Essex Police Kent Police (UK) LeicestershireDigitalHub Leicestershire Police @TarianROCU HMPPS 👏🏻💻📱📀

Category 5 New for 2019: INNOVATION. Opening from return sponsor @RokeManor. Hugely competitive category with great nominations from SEROCU Lancashire Police Hampshire Police Metropolitan Police HM Revenue & Customs National Crime Agency (NCA) Police Service NI Bedfordshire Police West Yorkshire Police Home Office West Midlands Police 👏🏻💡

Category 6: Excellence in Leadership. Thanks to Magnet Forensics Ruth Edmonds for sponsoring & taking part in great discussions. Exceptional examples of leadership from Yorkshire & Humber Regional Cyber Crime Unit Lancashire Police @EMRCCU Greater Manchester Police City of London Police LeicestershireDigitalHub Leicestershire Police and SEROCU

Next Award: International Collaboration. Incredible work by incredible people and law enforcement partners worldwide with notable nominations recognising staff across National Crime Agency (NCA) Police Scotland @TarianROCU and HM Revenue & Customs. 👏🏻 🌍

Category 8: Perhaps the hardest task for judging panel to select a Team of the Year from incredible nominations National Crime Agency (NCA) Lancashire Police Metropolitan Police @TarianROCU LeicestershireDigitalHub Hampshire Police Merseyside Police HMPPS Counter Terrorism Policing Police Service NI West Midlands Police Greater Manchester Police Norfolk Police

Penultimate Award: Digital Investigator of the Year 2019. 2 previous winners on the panel from City of London Police & Hampshire Police. Leading nominations this year from West Midlands Police Hampshire Police Dorset Police Dorset Police Cyber Protect West Yorkshire Police and HM Revenue & Customs. Welcome back to Sponsor Cellebrite

Final Award is BRAND NEW for 2019. Sponsored by AWS UK & Ireland Charlie Anderson we introduce the Fellowship Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Digital Intelligence & Investigation. No named nominations for this award... this one will be kept under wraps until the main event!!

Congratulations to the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) Digital Intelligence and Investigation BLD - Blue Lights Digital Digital Awards 2019 Finalists 🏆🏅 announced this morning. Incredible work, innovation, leadership & resilience by incredible people. We now look forward to hosting the event to give the recognition you so deserve.

Huge congratulations to Northumbria Police @nerccu and @EMRCCU for being selected as Finalists 🏆🏅 for Exceptional Work in the Prevention of Cyber Crime.

Challenging category as always, thank goodness Forensic Analytics expertise helped with so many awesome nominations! Well done West Midlands Police Regional Organised Crime Unit (West Midlands) and South Wales Police for being selected as Finalists 🏆🏅 for Exceptional Development or Use of Communications Data. @DaveThompsonCC @CCMattJukes

Hugely competitive and diverse category to choose a winner within! Well done National Crime Agency (NCA) and Hampshire Police for being selected as Finalists 🏆🏅 for Exceptional Application or Development of Internet Intelligence & Investigations. @NWPCCFoulkes @NCA_LynneOwens @ACCBenSnuggs OGDiamond_Pinkney

Huge congratulations to Leicestershire Police LeicestershireDigitalHub and @TarianROCU for being selected as Finalists 🏆🏅 for Application or Development of Advanced Digital Forensic Techniques 👏🏻 💽 💻 Simon Cole ACC Julia Debenham Heddlu Dyfed-Powys Police Gwent Police South Wales Police

We love this category! The panel were incredibly impressed with the #innovation and sharing of best practice taking place nationally. Congratulations to West Midlands Police and SEROCU for being selected as Finalists 🏆🏅 for Innovation in Digital Investigation & Intelligence. 👏🏻💡

Congratulations to all the nominees and finalists for the International Digital Investigation & Intelligence Awards. Digital Investigation & Intelligence Awards National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), Digital Intelligence and Investigation & BLD - Blue Lights Digital bit.ly/2GbTlk1

The #digitalleaders category was inspiring as in previous years! Fantastic leaders making a difference locally, regionally & nationally! Incredibly difficult to judge but panel selected Lancashire Police Lancs Police Fraud & Cyber & Leicestershire Police LeicestershireDigitalHub as this years finalists 🏆🏅👏🏻

Huge congratulations to National Crime Agency (NCA) and returning finalist Police Scotland for being selected as Finalists 🏆🏅 for International Collaboration in a Complex Investigation 👏🏻 🌍 @NCA_LynneOwens @MattHorneNCA @CC_Livingstone

Team of the Year an incredibly challenging category for the panel. Thanks to Evidence Talks Ltd for their great contribution 👏🏻 Well done to HMPPS and Leicestershire Police LeicestershireDigitalHub for being selected as Finalists 🏆🏅 Simon Cole ACC Julia Debenham

Announcing the BIG ONE.... Finalists for Digital Investigator of the Year 2019 sponsored by Cellebrite. MASSIVE #CONGRATULATIONS to West Yorkshire Police and HM Revenue & Customs for having the 2 individuals selected as the finalists this year. @WestYorksOPCC @WYPDeeCollins HMRC Press Office

Only one week to go until the International Digital Investigation & Intelligence Awards 2019. Final touches being put on what looks like the best yet due to exceptional finalists and a great support from Senior Leaders nationally!

Tonight is the night!!!! Looking forward to an outstanding event and wishing all the very best of luck to our incredible finalists.