5-3-21 fdl police detective promotion

Chief of Police William Lamb has announced that Officer Vance Henning has
been promoted to the position of Detective in the City of Fond du Lac Police Department.    Detective Henning served as a Police Officer for the City of Kenosha until 2007.   In 2007 he was hired by the City of Fond du Lac Police Department as a Police Officer.   From 2007 to 2012, he was assigned as a Patrol Division Officer, and from 2009 to 2012.  He also served as a Field Training Officer to help train newly hired Police Officers.  In 2012, he was assigned to the Police Department’s Street Crimes Unit and in 2014.  He was additionally assigned to the Lake Winnebago Area Metropolitan Enforcement Group  (MEG) Drug Unit; in these capacities.  Detective Henning is a highly decorated member of the City of Fond du Lac Police Department and has received a number of awards and commendations for his work. Most notable among those awards, in November 2020, Detective Henning was one of only 23  law enforcement officers in the entire United States to be selected by United States Attorney General William Barr to be presented with the ‘Distinguished Service in
Policing’ Award.   Detective Henning has served as a member of the Police Department’s SWAT Team  since 2012, and has held specialized assignments on that team as a Sniper and as an Assistant Team Leader.  Among his other noteworthy accomplishments, Detective Henning was instrumental in helping to build a local Drug Endangered Children Team.