Street address of Burlington police station on to be re-named to commemorate former Constable Bill Henshaw.

By Staff

BURLINGTON, ON.  May 27. 2013   South Hampton Blvd, a city street that runs west off Walker’s Line and has just the one address on it – that being the Burlington detachment of the Halton Regional Police,  will have its name changed soon to Constable  Henshaw Blvd.  to commemorate Bill Henshaw who died while on duty in 2010.

Street Burlington police station is located on will be renamed to commemorate the late Cst. Bill Henshaw .

Henshaw joined the police service in 1977 and was 54 when he collapsed at work and rushed to the Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital where he died a short time later of what police say appeared  to be natural causes.

He was president of the Halton Police Association, and honoured by the Sovereign Chapter of the Burlington IODE  for his work with community and youth in 1996.

Nominated by his  then commander, Inspector Dan Okuloski, Henshaw was described as “an excellent officer dedicated to the citizens of Burlington and the Region of Halton.”

Henshaw would tell people his commitment to community and police service members through his work with the Halton Police Association stemmed from his family.

The paper work to make the name change is in process.