The recruitment process states that a Chief Constable is selected by the area's Police and Crime Commissioner, but the decision has to be approved by the Police and Crime Panel which has the power to veto the decision.
The National Archives of Malaysia was selected by the Jury in recognition of its outreach, educational and training programmes in the area of preservation within the Asian region.
Similar experiments were performed in Swindon, which was selected "because it is a reasonably large inland industrial city in the midst of a large rural area".