His last assignment prior to retirement was as the Training Unit Supervisor. He held this position for the last seven years of his career.

He worked every floor in every facility as a correctional officer, as well as being a Jail Training Officer for two years prior to promoting to sergeant. As a sergeant, he supervised every facility and was also the administrative sergeant for two years. After that, he became the Training Unit Supervisor for the next seven years. He was a sergeant for eleven of his seventeen years with the department.

During his time in the Training Unit, he served as the Correctional Academy Coordinator and has taught most subjects within the academy. He is a certified instructor in Chemical Agents, Pepperball, Expandable Baton, Simunitions, Firearms, Sling Systems, Diversionary Devices and Less Lethal Impact Munitions. He has conducted several high intensity tactical training scenarios for his department’s first responders and SERT team. In 2003 he became a Master Instructor for Pepperball Technologies, Inc. He has instructed courses with the Pepperball Systems throughout numerous agencies in California and Nevada.

Sgt. Henkle has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminology and a minor in Business Administration from California State University, Fresno. He is an adjunct faculty instructor with the State Center Community College District. He has taught the Introduction to Corrections course; and currently teaches in the Supervisors CORE course and the Juvenile Counselor Academy. When the Critical Incident Command teams were developed in his department, he was appointed as one of the team leaders for the department’s Critical Incident Command teams. He has participated in several major critical incidents and training drills in the field and in the detention facilities; from being the Incident Commander, Operations OIC, and Logistics OIC. He has served in these capacities during the following situations: a barricaded gunman/hostage, active shooters, suicides, forest fires, loss of facility water, and loss of facility power, and search and rescues. He has taught the Incident Command System to management, supervisors and line officers in patrol and corrections. For six years he was a department coordinator for the Peer Counseling Program where he conducted or coordinated Critical Incident Stress Debriefings. He has lead or coordinated with mental health professionals the debriefings for Officer Involved Shootings, Line of Duty Deaths, Officer Deaths, and Suicides.

He is very involved in youth sports within his community. He is the president of the youth soccer league, assistant commissioner for girl’s softball. Along with coaching these two sports, he also coaches basketball and Babe Ruth baseball. His wife Kristi is a third grade teacher and they have four children: Claire 15, Cameron 14, Kaycee 9, and Cole 3.