Sheriff's Office Awarded Grant for DUI Enforcement
The money will be used to fund a project to reduce local deaths and injuries from impaired driving crashes and excessive speeding.
The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office has been awarded a public safety grant for an anti-DUI program aimed at developing and implementing strategies to reduce local highway crashes, injuries and fatalities, according to a recent press release. The Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) in Atlanta awarded the $69,800 H.E.A.T. (Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic) grant to the sheriff’s office. The statewide H.E.A.T. project goal is designed to combat deaths and injuries from impaired driving crashes and excessive speeding by increasing the use of safety belts while educating the public about traffic safety and the dangers of DUI. “The H.E.A.T Project aims to increase the impaired driver apprehension rate,” said Sheriff Ted…
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