Sife Perdue

Columbus Police Department — Columbus, GA

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch January 5, 1994

Age 49

Tour of Duty 9 yrs

The Vigil Panel 139 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 25

Incident

Officer Sife Perdue was killed in a motorcycle crash while escorting a funeral procession. He had stopped traffic at an intersection, and after the last vehicle in the procession passed, he began to pass the procession en route to the next intersection. As he began to pull away, he struck the back of a truck that had stopped for the procession. He was transported to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries a short time later. Officer Perdue was a U.S. Army Vietnam War veteran and had served with the Columbus Police Department for nine years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife, daughter, son, parents, three half brothers, sister, and grandchild.

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Officer Perdue gave the Columbus Police Department 9 years.
Thank you for your service to the Columbus community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Columbus Police Department

Type Other

Location Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Platform Identity cpd.muscogee.ga.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch January 5, 1994

Tour of Duty 9 yrs

Age 49

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Sife Perdue served in the the United States military (1965â1985) before joining law enforcement.

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Officer Sife Perdue is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.

In GA, 264 of 905 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 29.2% of this state's fallen. That is 29.2 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Columbus Police Department, 5 of 26 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 19.2% of this agency's fallen.

Columbus Police Department

of 26 officers

19.2% Accident

GA — Statewide

264

of 905 officers

29.2% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Accident