Americus Police Department Awarded Traffic Enforcement Grant by Governor’s Office of Highway Safety

Awarded $29,316.48 Traffic Enforcement Grant

AMERICUS, Ga. – The Americus Police Department announced today that it has been awarded a major traffic enforcement grant in the amount of $29,316.48 from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) in Atlanta.

The Americus Police Department received the grant in recognition of its lifesaving work as the coordinating agency of GOHS’s West Central Traffic Enforcement Network. There are sixteen traffic enforcement networks across the state that help enforce Georgia’s year-round safety belt, speed and impaired driving campaigns.

“This is our way of supporting the Americus Police Department, through its continued leadership via Coordinator Lt. Tim Allen, and the west central traffic enforcement network, said Roger Hayes, GOHS Director of Law Enforcement Services said.

“This grant will make sure that efforts to protect the public from drunk, distracted and other dangerous driving behaviors will continue as well as recognizing network leadership and law enforcement agencies in this region for their dedication and hard work to reduce crashes and injuries and eliminate traffic deaths on our roads.”

“Crash data shows enforcement and education of traffic laws are two of most effective countermeasures to help our state and nation reduce crashes and eliminate deaths and serious injuries on our roads,” said Allen Poole, Director of the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety.

“Each life saved on our roads is one less family that will have to live with the pain of losing a loved one whose life was taken from them in a traffic crash that was completely preventable.”

The West Central Traffic Enforcement Network includes law enforcement agencies in 14 counties, which include Harris, Talbot, Taylor, Muscogee, Marion, Chattahoochee, Schley, Stewart, Webster, Sumter, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell and Clay.

“We are very pleased to have been selected by GOHS to receive this technology grant. The Americus Police Department is committed to reducing injuries and deaths from traffic crashes through the active data driven enforcement of traffic laws in high accident areas,” said Mark Scott, Americus Chief of Police

The coordinator in the west central traffic enforcement network region will coordinate year-round waves of high visibility, concentrated patrols, multi-jurisdictional roadchecks and sobriety checkpoints as a partner in campaigns such as Click It or Ticket, Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over, 100 Days of Summer HEAT, and Operation Southern Slow Down.

For more information on the Americus Police Department’s award, contact Chief Mark Scott at 229-924-3677 or police@americusga.gov. For more information on the grant program, call 404-656-6996 or visit www.gahighwaysafety.org.

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