Indiana Department of Natural Resources

402 W. Washington St.

Indianapolis, IN 46204-2748

Conservation Officer Robert Klakamp Selected as District 6 Officer of the Year (Brown County)

Indiana Conservation Officer Robert Klakamp has been selected the 2018 District 6 Officer of the Year.

Klakamp is currently assigned to Brown County. He was raised in Jackson County. He has been a conservation officer for a little more than two years.

Klakamp serves the division as a certified breath test operator and venomous snake handler, and is a certified EMT.

The nine-county district covers Brown, Monroe, Bartholomew, Morgan, Johnson, Shelby, Hancock, Marion and Hendricks counties.

He is now in the running for the Pitzer Award, which is given to the top overall Conservation Officer in the state of Indiana and selected from the 10 district award winners.

The Pitzer award is named after Conservation Officer James D. Pitzer, who was fatally shot while investigating illegal hunting activity Jan. 1, 1961 in Jay County.

Media contact: Lt. Angela Goldman, DNR Law Enforcement, 812-320-9839