Americus Police Department Awarded $29,438.48 Traffic Enforcement Grant
Published 3:26 pm Wednesday, January 29, 2025
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Governor’s office of Highway Safety
The Americus Police Department announced today that it has been awarded a major traffic enforcement grant in the amount of $29,438.48 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 Assistant Coordinator Lieutenant Timothy 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.”
The West Central Traffic Enforcement Network includes law enforcement agencies in 14 counties, which include Sumter, Harris, Talbot, Taylor, Muscogee, Marion, Chattahoochee, Stewart, Schley, Webster, Quitman, Clay, Randolph and Terrell Counties.
“This grant from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety is instrumental in promoting cooperation among the 14 counties in this region. We are more effective when we all work together to make our streets and highways safer,” said Chief Mark Scott of the Americus Police Department 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 Lt. Tim Allen at 229-924-3677. For more information on the grant program, call 404-656-6996 or visit www.gahighwaysafety.org