Welcome to the Ohio Identification Officers Association

The Ohio Identification Officers Association strives to be a professional association for those engaged in investigation, forensic identification and scientific examination of physical evidence.

Our goals are:

• To associate persons who are actively engaged in the profession of identification and scientific crime investigation in an organized body, so that the profession, in all its disciplines, may be standardized and its operations effectively, impartially, and scientifically administered.

• To encourage the improvement of all disciplines of forensic identification and investigation by fostering and supporting the need for research, refinements of current methodologies and professional training.

• To keep its members apprised of the latest advances, methods, techniques and discoveries in crime investigations.

• To encourage research in the application of science to the investigation of crime.

• To raise the standards of ethical, scientific and professional conduct for its members and to make those who command, manage or supervise within law enforcement, criminal justice and crime laboratories aware of those standards and encourage their adoption.

• To employ the collective wisdom of the profession to advance the scientific methods of personal identification and scientific examination of evidence.

• To support and cooperate with state, federal, local, county and independent agencies in furtherance and proper application of the professional and scientific advances in the identification field.

• To work closely with the International Association for Identification (IAI) in furthering the professionalism of identification generally.