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September 16, 2015 | forsythherald.com | 75,000 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 18, No. 37
Forsyth County remembers 9/11 By KATHLEEN STURGEON kathleen@appenmediagroup.com
KATHLEEN STURGEON/STAFF
Forsyth County Sheriff’s Officers and Forsyth County Fire Department personnel take a moment of silence with the piece of the World Trade Center towers.
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A small crowd gathered Sept. 11 at the Forsyth County Safety Complex to remember what happened 14 years prior. “Today is not a day for us to be hateful or bitter,” Fire Chief Danny Bowman said. “It is a rather a day for us to remember several things. The 3,000-some people killed in four locations. It is for us to remember the 343 firefighters who died going up the stairs while others were coming and trying to come down. Those firefighters’ families that number in the tens of thousands that now include children and widows. We are never going to forget today.” The ceremony was brief in order to be respectful, Bowman said. “One thing the fire department doesn’t do well is brag,” Bowman said. “We just don’t do that. We do our jobs and
go back to the engine house. That’s what the ceremony today conveyed.” But one aspect of the ceremony made an impact on all in attendance. It was a steel artifact from one of the World Trade Center towers in New York. The relic is on permanent loan from the New York Fire Department, Coleman said. “I had the opportunity to speak to the fire chief in New York when this public safety complex was about to open in 2006,” Coleman said. “I told the chief I’m not interested in any type of an artifact that would go behind rope or in glass. But, rather, I wanted something the citizens of Forsyth County can call their own.” At the time, FDNY had only released two pieces of the towers, including the one to Forsyth, according to Division Chief Jason Shivers. With the
See REMEMBERS, Page 40
Sheriff Piper clears air on CALEA reaccreditation By KATHLEEN STURGEON kathleen@appenmediagroup.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Sheriff Duane K Piper is sticking by his assertion that compliance with Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) would put his deputies afoul of Georgia law. In parting, the two agencies have agreed to disagree about the lethal force standard. The sheriff says he doesn’t understand why CALEA is demanding a change in the standard for lethal force
that the department has used through its CALEA certification in three subsequent recertifications. “That policy that previously had an excellence rating hadn’t been changed and all of a sudden it was PIPER noncompliant,” Piper said. “If there are inconsistences like that, then what in the world is that going to do for my deputies trying to live
That policy that previously had an excellence rating hadn’t been changed and all of a sudden it was noncompliant.” DUANE K. PIPER Forsyth County Sheriff by these rules from CALEA? It’s going to harm the public. I’m not putting the agency and my guys in that situation.” Ever since Piper was a lieuten-
ant with the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office, he said he has always had a
See CALEA, Page 44
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