Happy New Year to one and all! I hope this new year is a happy, healthy, and safe one for all of you and your families, and that you all had a wonderful holiday season.
The California Homicide Investigators Association's 2011 Conference will be hosted by the San Francisco Police Department from February 28-March 3, 2011 at the Hilton Hotel at 333 O'Farrell Street in downtown San Francisco. During this four day event, the participants will attend notable case presentations and training seminars. In addition, the conference provides a fertile environment for networking, individual case evaluations and discussion of techniques with some of the top investigators and prosecutors in the country. For information, please contact Lieutenant Michael Stasko at 415-850-7702/cell or 415-553-1501/work or Inspector Dave Falzon at 415-553-1049/work. Let them know you heard about the training through me and the IAWP!
Please let me know of any trainings, promotions, retirements, or anything else of interest going on in your agencies or local areas so that I can pass the information along to the entire Region through this blog. In addition, as you have seen in the latest Women Police magazine, our Editor, Simon Townsley, has included a two page section in the magazine called Regional Roundup, which is an area that the Regions can report things going on that would be of interest to the entire membership and not just something that would be better off being posted on the Region blogs. Not everything submitted necessarily will be printed in the magazine; however, it is the goal of the Board of Directors that every Regional Coordinator submit something to Simon for consideration for every issue.
That being said, MY deadline for sending submissions to Simon for the next magazine is January 31, 2011, so please send me any information of things going on in your agencies or local areas so that I can pass them onto Simon for consideration. Those not printed in the magazine, I will include on the blog.
In addition, I would REALLY love to see our Region's membership grow this year. In fact, I am SO confident that we can increase our membership, that I have taken on a challenge made by Region 6 Coordinator, Diane Mueller, at the Minneapolis Conference this past September to get 100 new members to join the IAWP by next year's conference in August in Lexington, Kentucky! With your help, I KNOW we can do it! Please print off the application form for membership off of the IAWP website at www.iawp.org and send to the women in your agencies with a note encouraging them to join (and it's a tax write-off, to boot!) If you have an organizational magazine or newspaper, forward the application and information onto them for inclusion in the publications on a monthly basis. When you get someone to join, let me know their name, rank and agency, and I'll confirm with Wendy Wilson, the Membership Chair, that she's received their membership fees, and I'll send you an IAWP Challenge Coin as thanks!
So many women in law enforcement are not aware of the IAWP or the benefits they will gain from becoming a member. You helping get that information out to the women in law enforcement that you know can make a huge difference in their lives. Share the good news about the IAWP!
