APD receives H.E.A.T. grant for local DUI enforcement
The Atlanta Police Department’s H.E.A.T. Unit is developing and implementing strategies using traffic enforcement and education to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities from drugs and alcohol, speed and aggressive driving.
The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) has awarded the Atlanta Police Department a $93,200 grant from its Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic or H.E.A.T. program. Added to this award is $139,800 from the Atlanta Police Department (APD), bringing the total grant program budget to $233,000. The H.E.A.T. program was designed to serve Georgia jurisdictions with the highest rates of crashes, injuries, and deaths. It includes twenty-two Georgia counties and covers most of metropolitan Atlanta. The primary goals of the program are to (1) reduce impaired driving crashes; (2) reduce excessive speeding; (3) increase safety belt usage; and (4) educate the public about traffic safety. “The H.E.A.T. initiative seeks to increase the …
Tammy
12:47 pm on Thursday, November 29, 2012
If they set this up on Cheshire Bridge road on the weekends they will need to bring paddy wagons to haul all the tore up people away. more ›