Blaine Phillips

Blaine Phillips has served in law enforcement for 19 years. He started his career in the year 2000 at the Stillwater (OK) Police Department, where he worked as a detention officer for three years. He then worked as a patrol officer for six years at the Estes Park (CO) Police Department. 
 
He was later hired as an agent with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics (OBN), where he has worked for the last 8. Blaine spent three years working narcotics cases and four years working human trafficking cases before being promoted to an Agent in Charge and tasked with supervising a narcotics unit responsible for 11 counties in the southwest corner of Oklahoma. 
 
In 2017 Blaine worked a case involving a human trafficking suspect that was trading child pornography with others using an online messenger. Blaine worked the case for several months and using a variety of methods was able to identify 86 suspects in 23 states and 20 different countries were distributing child pornography. Working with the agencies in each of those locations, he was able to see that most of those suspects were brought to justice.  
 
Blaine enjoys teaching and is a criminal justice adjunct instructor for Rose State College, an instructor at Oklahoma’s basic police academy, and an instructor for OBN teaching continuing education classes on Human Trafficking, Online Investigations, and Advanced Police Report Writing.
Blaine holds a Bachelor of Arts from Ashford University, majoring in Social and Criminal Justice and with a minor in Public Administration and a Master’s of Science at Colorado State University, majoring in Organizational Leadership.
 
Blaine holds an Advanced Council of Law Enforcement Education and Training (CLEET) certification, he was named OBN’s 2017 Agent of the Year, is a proud member of the Association of Oklahoma Narcotics Enforcers (AONE), a member of the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Anti-Human Trafficking Working Group, a Cellebrite certified forensic cell phone technician, worked as an Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) investigator, is a published author for Law Enforcement Today, is a Field Training Agent, a member of OBN’S Honor Guard, and is an FAA licensed sUAS (drone) pilot and has flown numerous missions for OBN.