The Bibb County Sheriff's Department remembered one of its own Wednesday, five years after he was killled during a drug raid.

On March 23, 2006, Deputy Joseph Whitehead was shot and killed while a team of law enforcement officers served a no-knock search warrant on a Macon home.

Investigators believed drugs were being sold out of the home.

The Bibb County sheriff's office today remembered Whitehead with a brief ceremony in the lobby of the county law enforcement complex.

Chief Deputy David Davis called Whitehead a dedicated officer who never shirked his duty: "He will always be missed, and he will never be forgotten. As long as anybody serves at this sheriff's office, he will never be forgotten. And as the plaque behind me attributes, as long as any person serves, these people will not be forgotten."

Davis also paid tribute to Whitehead's character.

If you’ve spent much time around Christians, especially committed and devoted ones, you will find people who earnestly want to please God and live a holy life. Most of them know and believe the gospel (Christ died for our sins). They would all rightly admit that they are not good enough on their own to obey God’s law, which is why they need a Savior. But if you look really hard, you will find some who are living in bondage. This is not bondage to sin but bondage to a new set of rules.
The old law, otherwise known as the Mosaic law, or the Ten Commandments is well known. Anybody who’s spent more than a Easter/Christmas at a church can tell you that nobody will be justified before God by keeping the old law. They might even talk about how Paul says the point of the old law is to show us our inability to be righteous and make us feel the need of a Savior.