Honorable Sheriff Jerry Keller
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
400 Stewart Avenue
Las Vegas, NV 89101-2984

Dear Sheriff Keller:

NAPRI was formed by police personnel who realized that there were organizations for other police specialty areas, such as auto theft, arson, etc, but no national association for property crime detectives who investigate burglaries, thefts and recover stolen property. Also, this is the only association that provides networking and training for all those who are involved in regulating the Pawnshop & Secondhand Dealer industry in the United States.

We completed our third training conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, in August 2002. The event was a great success with over 250 law enforcement and state regulators attending. Our next training conference will be held in Orlando, Florida in August 2003. We are conducting a NAPRI Computer Committee meeting at the conference. We will have police agencies from around the nation attending to discuss police property recovery database systems. Supervisor Coleen Irvine of your agency's pawn detail is well known in the law enforcement community for her knowledge in this area. We think it is important to start meeting on a national level and share information to improve the recovery of stolen property. Many different police agencies in the United States are interested in improving their databases and your agency is one of the leaders in this field. Therefore we are requesting that Coleen be allowed to attend this meeting. Thank you for your consideration of this request.

Best regards,

LT. Phil Hafvenstein, Chairman
NAPRI Computer Committee
Phone: (612) 673-3829