Barrow County Sheriff’s Office Awarded $20,000 Traffic Enforcement Grant The Barrow County Sheriff’s Office announced today that it has been awarded a major traffic enforcement grant from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) in Atlanta. The Barrow County Sheriff’s Office received the grant in recognition of its lifesaving work as the coordinating agency of GOHS’s Piedmont Area 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 Barrow County Sheriff’s Office through its continued leadership via Coordinator Deputy David Witte and the Piedmont Area Traffic Enforcement Network,” said GOHS Law Enforcement Services Director Powell Harrelson. “We want to make sure they can continue their region-wide efforts to protect Georgia motorists from drunk and otherwise dangerous drivers. They’ve proven their dedication and this grant serves not only as recognition for that hard work, but as means for continuing the GOHS mission of reducing crashes, injuries and fatalities on our roads.” The Piedmont Area Traffic Enforcement Network includes law enforcement agencies in 7 counties, which include Barrow County, Clarke County, Elbert County, Madison County, Oconee County, Oglethorpe County, and Wilkes County. The GOHS grant awards $20,000 to the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office, with half to support the activities of the traffic enforcement network and half to be spent on traffic safety equipment for the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office. The coordinator in the Piedmont Area Traffic Enforcement Network region will coordinate year-round waves of high visibility, concentrated patrols, multi-jurisdictional road checks and sobriety checkpoints as a partner in campaigns such as Click It or Ticket, Operation Zero Tolerance and the Thunder Taskforce. For more information on the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office’s award, contact Deputy David Witte at dwitte@barrowsheriff. For more information on the grant program, call 404-656-6996 or visit gahighwaysafety.org.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:55:36 +0000