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What aspect of the field are you looking to get into? Are you interested in the collection of evidence, or are you looking to analyze evidence? Most police departments (read: the departments that I've worked for) have units that collect evidence and then send it to a larger lab for analysis. The lab is a neutral party, which helps in court proceedings....
Anyways, I'm getting off on a tangent here. I would think that criminal justice classes would be useful for some getting into the collection aspect, and science classes would be a prerequisite for working in a lab type environement.
Then again, I have a BA in Criminology/Criminal Justice, and I can't think of how it has helped me as an officer. Here's what I told the panel during my interview. "The fact that I have a degree basically tells you that over a four year period, I sat down in front of approximately 40 different professors and did what they asked me to do to their satisfaction."
Good luck to ya...
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