Ladies and Gentlemen,

Here it is the beginning of October, I just can’t believe how time flies. Before you know it we will be having Thanksgiving Dinner with the family and then Christmas will be upon us.

My tenure is three quarters complete, I just can’t believe it.

The Western Regional Chapter’s membership is holding at 821. I miss quoted this number in my last message.

My wife and I just returned from the Western State Auto Investigators Central Chapters 3 day Training Seminar in Monterey, California.

During the outstanding training program we held our annual Western Regional Elections and Business Meeting.

Attending the General Chapter Meeting and the conference were IAATA’s 1st Vice President Henry Brune and 3rd Vice President Joe Brosius. Both gave a short talk about the International conference in Sidney, Australia during the chapter meeting.

1st Vice President Brune presented to the Western Regional Chapter a check from the International Association to help defray the cost of training in the region.

During our meeting it was discussed and voted on that the 2009 Western Regional Chapters General Meeting will be held during the AATIA Training Seminar.

Also during the chapter meeting the following members were elected to the WRC Executive Board for 2009:

President:	Richard Greenwood, Riverside PD
1st Vice President:	J.D. Hough, Arizona DPS
2nd Vice President:	Jim Kautz, Westminster (CO) PD
3rd Vice President:	Frank Graber, Fullerton PD/OCATT (Retired)
4th Vice President/Treasurer:	Bud Hood, OC Sheriff /OCATT (Retired)

3rd Vice President Jim Kautz brought us up to date on CATI’s hosting of the IAATI Training Seminar in Denver Colorado. The dates have all ready been set for August 9-14, 2009. Please mark your calendars and plan on attending the Seminar. WRC-IAATI will be co hosting the Seminar.

The Hotel will be the Westin Westminster in Westminster, Colorado.

I was honored along with Lisa Hanks, daughter of Lee Cole to present the Lee Cole Officer of the Year Award to Yuma Police Departments, Detective Melissa Norred. During the Banquet held on Tuesday evening in front of over 300 attendees.

Please go to www.wsati.org/leecoleaward.html. to see photographs of the presentation.

There were several other awards presented at the Training Seminar. Please go to the web site to see the photographs.

Up coming events:

2009 IAATI Training Seminar hosted by CATI and IAATI WRC in Westminster, CO August 9-14, 2009 at the Westin Westminster.

2009 Annual WSATI Training Seminar dates have all ready been set for October 5-7, 2009 and will be sponsored by the Northern Chapter of WSATI in Lake Tahoe, NV. No information on hotel is available at this time.

Please go to the WSATI web site for additional information.

If you have anything thing you wish to posted to the web site regarding training or other items of interest, please contact Gary Labb at; glabb@wrciaati.org

Sincerely,
Skip Davidson
2008 Western Regional Chapter President

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