Terry Hall

Terrance Levi Hall (13 September 1945 – 1 January 2016) was a Canadian policeman who served as an officer of the Toronto Police Service and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). Hall was the commander of the OPP's Special Squad, which targeted outlaw biker gangs, and was the lead investigator in the Port Hope 8 case, in which six members of Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club were controversially convicted of murder.

Early police career Hall was born in Tillsonburg, the son of Frank and Ethel Hall. He joined the Toronto Police Service in 1962 at the age of 17. In 1967, he transferred over to the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP).

Later life Hall retired in 1997 after serving in the homicide squad. In his retirement, he served as a member of the Aylmer Shrine Club, the Royal Order of Jesters and the Masonic lodge, Malahide Lodge #140. Hall died on 1 January 2016 in London, Ontario of cancer, at the age of 70. Baily said of him: "He was in good spirits to the end. He was an inspiration to all of us. Everything was a positive. There wasn’t a weak part of Terry that I knew."

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