Allen Ashby

Allen Ashby is a Lieutenant with the Idaho State Police and is currently assigned to the Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, District 1 Office. Lt. Ashby has a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice; he started his career in law enforcement in 2000 and has worked various assignments in his law enforcement career. Lt. Ashby currently manages the Patrol Division out of the ISP District 1 Office.

Lt. Ashby is an accredited Crash Reconstructionist through the Accreditation Commission for Traffic Accident Reconstruction (ACTAR). Within the ISP, Lt. Ashby has worked extensively on the Crash Reconstruction Unit (CRU). He investigates and reconstructs serious injury and fatality collisions that occur in Idaho and works with Idaho’s Region 1 Critical Incident Task Force assisting in processing, interpreting, measuring, and diagramming nearly all major crime scene investigations in northern Idaho. Lt. Ashby is qualified as an expert witness in various collision reconstruction subjects and has testified throughout Idaho on various crash-related topics.

Lt. Ashby has also served as ISP’s Crash Reconstruction Program Coordinator and, as such, approved all ISP Crash Reconstruction Reports while also coordinating ISP’s training and equipment for ISP’s Collision Reconstruction Program. Lt. Ashby is also a certified Idaho P.O.S.T. instructor for various crash-related disciplines and instructs Basic Collision Investigation through Advanced/Reconstruction topics for ISP, allied Idaho agencies, Idaho P.O.S.T., and the North Idaho College.