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Crime Scene Investigator (CSI) Certificate

After the completion of all four Crime Scene Investigator (CSI) levels, the students will obtain a Crime Scene Investigator Certificate from Northeastern State University (NSU) and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI). Students are not required to attend all four course blocks, but attendance and proficiency in all four will be required to obtain a Crime Scene Investigator Certificate.

By offering this format, NSU and the OSBI are offering a blended learning platform not currently available to this audience that allows for greater attendance by law enforcement departments who are not staffed or funded at levels that allow all on campus training.

The courses will be uploaded and offered through the NSU's BlackBoard System that can be accessed from any location that has an internet connection, using NSU login credentials provided to enrolled students. Face-to-face courses take place on the NSU Broken Arrow campus from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Program Instruction and CLEET Accredited Hours

This certificate program will be instructed by Crime Scene Agents from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and the Broken Arrow Police Department. The format of this program will be held both online and face-to-face. The majority of your time spent will be online at your own pace for curriculum instruction, and the few days spent face-to-face will be for practical exercises and proficiency testing.

This class has been accredited by the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training for 128 hours of mandatory Continuing Education Credit. Regarding any law enforcement concepts, practices, methods, techniques, products, or devices as might be taught, promoted, or otherwise espoused in outside schools or seminars, there is no intent, expressed or implied, that accreditation indicates or in any way conveys CLEET approval of such concepts, practices, methods, techniques, products, or devices, unless such approval is explicitly stated by CLEET.

  • Crime Scene Investigator I (CSI I) for 32 hours - 22-0934
  • Crime Scene Investigator II (CSI II) for 32 hours - 22-0935
  • Crime Scene Investigator III (CSI III) for 32 hours - 22-0936
  • Crime Scene Investigator IV (CSI IV) for 32 hours - 22-0937

COURSE: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATOR I

CSI I will consist of the equivalent of two 8-hour days of online learning and two 8-hour days in the classroom for hands on and proficiency testing. The first two days of the course are online. The second two days of the course take place on the NSU Broken Arrow Campus and are from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Learning objectives:

  • Overview and theory of CSI
  • Crime scene management
  • Legal considerations of CSI
  • Crime scene search patterns
  • Collection and packaging of evidence - DICED
  • Crime scene sketching and diagramming
  • Latent print processing

Crime Scene Investigator (CSI) I is the first of a four part series of blended courses being offered by Northeastern State University's department of Continuing Education and taught by Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) agents and other approved law enforcement personnel to currently certified law enforcement personnel.

COURSE: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATOR II

Crime Scene Investigator (CSI) II is the second in a series of four blended course being offered through a partnership between Northeastern State University's department of Continuing Education and Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI), and taught by OSBI Agents and other approved law enforcement personnel to currently certified law enforcement personnel.

CSI II will consist of the equivalent of two 8-hour days of online learning and two 8-hour days in the classroom for hands on and proficiency testing. The first two days of the course are online. The second two days of the course take place on the NSU Broken Arrow campus from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Learning objectives:

  • DNA
  • Body as a crime scene
  • Wound recognition
  • Fire scene investigation
  • Crime scene photography

COURSE: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATOR III

Crime Scene Investigator (CSI) III is the third in a series of four blended course being offered through a partnership between Northeastern State University's department of Continuing Education and Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI), and taught by OSBI Agents and other approved law enforcement personnel to currently certified law enforcement personnel.

CSI III will consist of the equivalent of two 8-hour days of online learning and two 8-hour days in the classroom for hands on and proficiency testing. The first two days of class are online. The second two days of class take place on the NSU Broken Arrow campus from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Learning objectives:

  • Bloodstain pattern analysis
  • Trajectory analysis

COURSE: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATOR IV

Crime Scene Investigator (CSI) IV is the last in a series of four blended courses being offered through a partnership between Northeastern State University's department of Continuing Education and Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI), and taught by OSBI Agents and other approved law enforcement personnel to currently certified law enforcement personnel.

CSI IV will consist of four, eight hour days of on-campus learning encompassing overall proficiency testing, and hands on practical exercises that include processing a mock crime scene using previously taught evidence identification and collection techniques, photography, evidence packaging, and crime scene report writing, based upon items found at a mock crime scene. Students will also participate in a mock courtroom testimony practicum. All four days of class take place on the NSU Broken Arrow campus from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Learning objectives:

  • Process mock crime scene using learned processes
  • Complete crime scene report
  • Moot court

Brought and Developed by

This CSI Certificate program is brought to you from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and the Broken Arrow Police Department.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) has developed this specialized CSI Certificate Program specifically for current Oklahoma Law Enforcement Officers. OSBI Crime Scene Agents will be instructing this course along with the Broken Arrow Police Department.

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