A local Indiana Conservation Officer is being promoted. Bill Beville, who joined the DNR in 1985, was promoted to Lieutenant for District 9, serving southeast Indiana.
Beville has been acting commander of District 9 since January and assistant commander since 2008. A graduate of the Vincennes University conservation law enforcement program, he originally was stationed as an Indiana Conservation Officer in Fayette County before moving to Jennings County in 1990.
He is a former director of the Law Enforcement division’s Karl E. Kelley Youth Camp, serves as an instructor for the Law Enforcement division and an instructor trainer for the National Archery in the Schools Program. Beville was selected District 9 officer of the year by his peers in 1990
