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Mission Statement: To promote the exchange of maritime criminal activity intelligence amongst members and to focus on the needs of the marine community, by providing resource, boating safety and domestic security enforcement training.

Vision Statement: A plan for the Florida Marine Intelligence Unit to become an independent network of maritime intelligence information; which would be used by all law enforcement and marine industry interests.

Now that we are in the "Busy Season" I hope everyone is doing well. We have had a very good year of training so far at our last two quarterly meeting. We had a joint training at the IAMI yearly seminar in Panama Beach and a joint seminar with FACIU.

Thank you to all of our members for attending these meetings and special thanks to the Florida Agricultural Crimes Intelligence Unit (FACIU) and special thanks to the Polk County Sheriff's Office for the fantastic hospitality.

As for FMIU we need to get more participation and input. We are changing our meeting format to make it one day training with the board meeting the afternoon prior to the training day. I hope this will create a better opportunity to the members for attending. We realize the budgets of everyone across the state is going to be a challenge so with our meeting and training worked in to a day trip opportunity, hopefully the numbers will increase.

We will continue to have a network session the evening prior to the meeting day and try to secure a good hotel rates for those wanting or needing to stay overnight. Remember FMIU was created as a tool for the Marine Law Enforcement component of the state to network with each other as well as the marine insurance, surveyors, and private investigation groups. Information sharing is one of the best tools we have.

We are looking at our training and information formats and we welcome any input from our membership. If you have something you would like to see from a training perspective or from an information gathering status please let me know at jsuber@coj.net and we will try to work it in to the program.

FWC Lt. John Humphreys was very active in the creation of the new HOT SHEET and data base and has going out to members. If you are not receiving your “Hot Sheet”, please contact John at john.jumphreys@myfwc.com FMIU John has really done a fantastic job of getting this program going.

Last but definitely not least, hurricane season is here and the active part is yet to come so we want to remind all members to plan ahead and get your family and personal affairs taken care of so you can have peace of mind while you do your job for the citizens of the State of Florida.

The Waterborne Response Teams are up and ready to go with the chance of a deployment is just around the corner and being prepared personally as well as professionally is important.

Official publication of FMIU comments and/or suggestions is welcomed; call @ 850-410-0656, ext. 17169 or e-mail tara.alford@myfwc.com

The FMIU Board of Director’s Meeting will be held Tuesday afternoon, August 7^th at approximately 3:30p SHARP at the Best Western Aku Tiki Inn in Daytona Beach, off the main lobby.

1^st Vice President - Diana Ullery, Investigator, Florida Department of Agriculture

This session was held in conjunction with the joint training FACIU/FMIU meeting in Winter Haven, no minutes were taken.

The Best Western Aku Tiki Inn is located at 2225 S. Atlantic Ave., Daytona Beach, FL 32118 in Daytona Beach. A rate of $97.00 plus tax has been secured. Reservations can be made by calling (386) 252-9631.

From Orlando area – Take I-4 north to SR 400 to Daytona exit, then left on South Ridgewood Avenue (A-1-A), then right on CR 4050 (Orange Avenue), then right on South Atlantic Avenue (A-1-A).

From Jacksonville area – I-95 south to International Speedway Boulevard (US 92), then right at Beach Street then left on CR 4050 (Orange Avenue), then right on South Atlantic Avenue (A-1-A).

From West Palm Beach area – I-95 north to exit 256 (SR 421 east – Taylor Road) toward Port Orange then to Dunlawton Avenue and turn left on South Atlantic Avenue (A-1-A).

9:05a – 10:00 – Captain Carol Keyser, Boating and Waterways Section – Overview of Boating and Waterways Section

10:15a – 11:15 – Lieutenant Ed Cates, Boating and Waterways Section – 2006-2007 Boating Accident Overview

11:15a – 12:30 – LUNCH

1:30p – 1:45 – BREAK

1:45p – 2:45 – Janet Allen, PBS&J - ON CALL

2:45p – 3:45 – Tim Woody, Boating and Waterways Section - Boat Access – Grants and Derelict Vessels

3:45p – 4:30 –

4:30p – 5:00 – Intelligence Exchange and Adjourn