 I'm Captain Rhonda Jones at the Police Academy and we're here for the conference for the National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives, or NOLI. The conference is held in different cities, there are women from all over the country in Canada that come to the conference every year and this year it's Denver's turn to host but we've co-hosted that with several of the metro area agencies. It's really a mentoring and a networking and a learning opportunity for the unique issues that women and especially the executive positions face in law enforcement. My name is Pat Hefner and I'm a commander with the Lakewood Police Department. A lot of the women have faced the same struggles that I have and it's nice to be able to air those concerns and experiences with others and we can learn from each other and not make the same mistakes that others have made and certainly progress the role of women in law enforcement. Well, our mission is to empower women and to lead and mentor and train so the highlights of this conference of course are always the training. We like to provide training for all of our members but more importantly and I think what comes out of it as just a natural consequence is the networking and the relationships that are formed and that's going forward what we hope to do is just to help support each other. 12% is the number of women in law enforcement nationally and that's obviously an even smaller percentage of those in executive leadership positions. We're currently working with ISCP to get those numbers a little more squared away by sending out surveys but that's always our hope but we want to make sure that women are afforded equal ground and that they're breaking through that brass ceiling as it were. And this is again the first conference I've attended with Nolly and this has been amazing to hear the experiences of the other women who've paved the way and made it a lot easier for me.