Bevan was also a member of the Emergency Task Force for five years. He was heading the Green Ribbon task force, notably during the period of the Paul Bernardo high-profile murders of two teenage girls, Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy in the early 1990s.
Bevan began his career as a police officer in July 1973. Before moving to Ottawa in 1998, he was part of the Niagara Regional Police Service.