A. DeWade Langley

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Dewade Langley, Director of the OSBI

A. DeWade Langley is an America police officer and politician from Oklahoma. Langley is the current Director of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, being appointed to that position in 1995.

1 Law Enforcement Career
2 Director of OSBI
3 See Also
4 External Links

[edit] Law Enforcement Career

Before beginning his law enforcement career, Langley received a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern Oklahoma State University and a Master's degree from Oklahoma State University. Currently, he is pursuing a Doctor of Education degree from OSU. Langley started his career in 1970 in Custer County, Oklahoma working as an Office Deputy. He quickly rose through the ranks there, and was hired on with the OSBI as a special agent in 1977. As a special agent, Langley was assigned to the Lawton, Oklahoma office.

Three years later in 1980, Langley was promoted to Deputy Inspector in Woodward, Oklahoma. In his position, Langley was the lead investigator within the region and supervised the only long term sting operation in the history of the OSBI. Due to his outstanding work, Langley was promotoed to Inspector in that region four years later in 1984. In 1990, he was promoted to Deputy Director of the OSBI. Five years later, the Commission appointed him Director in 1995.

[edit] Director of OSBI

During his tenure, the agency has implemented many revolutionary crime-fighting programs such as the Statewide Intelligence Network, a Crime Scene Agent program, a Computer Crimes Unit, and computerized databases in DNA, Firearms and Tool Marks, and digital images. Under his leadership, the agency has become accredited by the American Society of Crime Lab Directors (ASCLD Lab) and has also attained national recognition for becoming one of only two law enforcement agencies in the state of Oklahoma to be accredited through the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA).