With a little more than three weeks to go until the Monday, September 25th registration cut-off date, the number of registered attendees for the 2006 Annual Meeting in Rome has already exceeded the total registration for the CSAA 50th Anniversary celebration held in Monte Carlo in 2000. With an outstanding lineup of speakers from the US and Europe, social events with an international flair, and many tour and site seeing opportunities, this meeting promises to be one to remember.

According to Steve Doyle, CSAA Executive Vice President, "The CSAA Annual Meeting is turning out to have generated some real excitement. The special optional events are almost full and the educational sessions have great speakers. We are delighted to have such distinguished speakers as our Keynote Speaker, Edward Turzanski, Senior Fellow at the Center for Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, who will be speaking on 'Preserving Civilization as We Know It-Understanding and Responding to the Modern Terrorist Threat' and Detective Inspector Brian Howat on the 'Use of CCTV Within the British Transportation System; Its Application in Apprehending the London Subway Bombers,' and hopefully some additional commentary on the more recent attempts at sabotaging US aircraft departing the UK for the US.”

If you are planning to go to the CSAA Annual Meeting in Rome, the Hilton Cavalieri will honor the CSAA room rate until October 4, 2006 IF rooms are still available which they currently are. However, the hotel is expecting to be sold-out over our meeting dates, so we are recommending that you make your reservations through CSAA as soon as possible and to not wait. We cannot guarantee you will get a room if you wait much longer. We are already at 89% of our room block and expect to fill up quickly now that the Labor Day weekend is over.

If you haven’t registered and you plan to attend, don’t miss the Monday, September 25th registration deadline. If you have registered and haven’t signed up for some of the exciting optional tours, please return your Tours & Excursions Registration Form by Monday, September 25th. Tour registration will not be available on-site.

For further information on the meeting go to the CSAA website at www.csaaul.org and click on the 2006 Annual Meeting icon or click here.