About CITB

The contents of the CITB Private Investigation Course and the International Police Officer Criminal Investigation Manual is derived from a wide base of experienced investigators and trainers. Most of the material, however, comes from the CITB President and Director of Studies, both of whom have considerable experience in both police and private investigation.

Nicholas Kokil was for many years a police officer engaged in a variety of specializations, including field training officer, sexual and child abuse investigator, fraud investigator, arson investigator, traffic accident investigator and major crimes investigator. He eventually achieved the position of Chief of Police, responsible for management, police administration and budgets, and creating and implementing policy.

Following his career in police work, Mr. Kokil became the Director of Investigations and Technical Services in a large private investigation firm. In this capacity, he conducted and supervised investigations into every area of private investigation, i.e., insurance fraud, arson, missing persons, locating hidden assets, statement analysis, human rights violations, criminal offenses, and much more.

Besides extensive experience as an investigator, both police and private, Mr. Kokil has had extensive experience training investigators. Investigation training was part of his duties, both in the police and within corporate private investigation. Furthermore, he instructed and taught a private investigation course at a private college in Vancouver, British Columbia, that was accepted by the Attorney-General of the Province as a requirement to be licensed as a private investigator in British Columbia. In addition, Mr. Kokil is in great demand as a lecturer and speaker in many areas of investigation, ranging from sexual abuse and fraud to counter-terrorism. He is currently an Executive Committee member of "International Police College of Canada".

His personal education has been extensive and includes Northwestern University in Chicago, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canadian Police College, and the American Society of Industrial Security, to name only a few educational institutions.

 

Brian Cox was a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

His assignments included Court Liaison Officer, Race Track Anti-fraud Squad, Major Crimes Section, Drug Squad, Drug Intelligence Coordinator and National Crime Intelligence Section (the RCMP's organized crime squad).

After leaving the RCMP, Mr. Cox created a private investigation and security consultant company, along with another experienced RCMP officer. In this capacity, he traveled a great deal performing both investigations and consultant duties on behalf of governments, large corporations, small companies and individual clients.

Mr. Cox's experience as an educator is very extensive, having been an instructor in the RCMP In-service Training Branch, the Canadian Police College, Robertson College and Northwest Law Enforcement Academy where he was appointed as Managing Director. He also sits on the Board of Directors of "International Police College of Canada".

His personal education involves the RCMP Training Academy, the University of Winnipeg, the Canadian Police College, plus numerous seminars and specialized police training programs. He has had extensive experience training both police and private investigators in a wide variety of subjects relating to their duties.