Brown County, Indiana – Officer Joe Tenbarge has been selected as the 2021 District 6 Officer of the Year.
He is assigned to Brown County and has been a conservation officer since 2011.
He has served as a public safety diver, background investigator, sonar operator, standard field sobriety test instructor, NASBLA certified boating instructor, and field training officer.
District 6 includes Hendricks, Marion, Hancock, Shelby, Johnson, Morgan, Monroe, Brown, and Bartholomew counties.
The district award puts Tenbarge in the running for the Pitzer Award.
The Pitzer Award is named after Conservation Officer James D. Pitzer, who was fatally shot while investigating illegal hunting activity on Jan. 2, 1961, in Jay County.
