Fayette County Marshal's dept. gets new chaplain

Fayette

County Marshal's dept. gets new chaplain

Fayette County

Marshal C.L. (Butch) Hall has appointed the Rev. Mr.

Thomas Zaworski as departmental chaplain.

Chaplain

Zaworski is no stranger to law enforcement and is

certified as a police chaplain under the provisions of

the Peace Officers Standard Training in Georgia. He was a

member of the very first class of ministers so certified.

Since

achieving his certification, he has attended numerous

training classes in various police academies. He also

returned to the college classroom to take a number of

criminal justice classes in the early 1980s.

Tom, as he

prefers to be called, has served as chaplain in three

other law enforcement agencies-Clayton County and

Fayette County Sheriff Departments and the Atlanta Police

Department. He has many interesting stories about his

involvement as a chaplain in domestic violence and crisis

intervention, especially in the City of Atlanta.

The most

difficult assignments, he says, have been death and

injury notification to families of police officers. And

the saddest chaplain's duty is conducting a funeral for a

public safety officer.

Zaworski

says he first became interested in police ministry when

his eldest son became a police officer in Fulton County

and experienced many entry-level stresses that new

officers must face and old officers try to forget.

Zaworski is

presently semi-retired and a pastoral assistant at St.

Gabriel's Catholic Church in Fayetteville. Well known in

ecumenical circles with ministers of all faiths, he is

active in community affairs.

He resides

in Fayetteville with his wife, Helen, who is a retired

registered nurse.

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