ELSPA (European Leisure Software Publishers Association’s) has crowned top officer Michael Bowie of Nottinghamshire Trading Standards Department as anti-piracy investigator of the year.
John Hillier, Anti-Piracy Unit (APU) manager of ELSPA presented Michael Bowie with the Award for Individual Excellence, designed in 2003 to recognise outstanding work in the area of anti-piracy, in a special ceremony on Monday 24th July in the Civic Office at County Hall, Nottingham.
Bowie is Nottinghamshire County Council’s longest serving Trading Standards officer, having worked for the department for an impressive 38 years after joining the service directly from school. He was presented with the award in recognition of his outstanding work in combating computer and video games piracy.
Bowie and the rest of the anti-counterfeiting team seized 8,000 computer games last year alone. A total of 21,000 items were seized last year, including computer games, clothing, DVDs, shoes, watches, razor blades, soap powder, bracelets, glassware and handbags.
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