Blaine Phillips
Blaine Phillips, Supervisor Agent
Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics
Career Highlights
- OBN’s 2017 Agent of the Year
- Oklahoma Anti-Human Trafficking Working Group
- OBN Honor Guard
- Published Author – Law Enforcement Today
Blaine Phillips
has served in law enforcement for 23 years and currently serves the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation as a Special Agent assigned the Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce. Blaine previously worked for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics where he was assigned to the agency’s Human Trafficking Unit where he specialized in HT investigations.
He was later hired as an agent with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics (OBN), where he worked from 2011 through 2022. Blaine spent three years working narcotics cases and five years working human trafficking cases before being promoted to an Agent in Charge and tasked with supervising a narcotics unit. In 2022 Blaine left OBN to take a position as a Special Agent with this Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Taskforce.
In 2017 Blaine worked a case involving a human trafficking suspect that was distributing child pornography 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 that 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 the OSBI teaching continuing education classes on Human Trafficking, Online Investigations, ICAC Investigations, and Advanced Police Report Writing. Blaine holds an Advanced Council of Law Enforcement Education and Training (CLEET) certification, he was named OBN’s 2017 Agent of the Year, and is a member of the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Anti-Human Trafficking Working Group..
Blaine holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Arizona, 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.