Out of hundreds of entries submitted from a variety of countries, only two talented photographers could be selected as the prizewinners.
In the ‘Making Europe safer’ category, Antonio José Pedrosa Padial’s photo of a police dog looking lovingly at a Spanish police officer was chosen as the winning entry. The police officer and her dog are part of the border control team at Valencia, Spain, and the photo serves as a reminder that not only humans work hard to make Europe safer.
In the ‘Re-opening Europe’ category, Valerio Giannetti’s photograph of the the Polizia di Stato music band entertaining young patients at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Italy was chosen as the winning entry. It includes one person dressed as Spiderman and, combined with the joviality of the band, this photograph provides a moving image of the many ways in which law enforcement officers support their local communities.
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