VALDOSTA— The Valdosta Police Department announced today that it has been awarded a major traffic enforcement grant from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) in Atlanta.
Valdosta Police Department received the grant in recognition of its lifesaving work as the coordinating agency of GOHS’s Southern Region 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 Valdosta Police Department through its continued leadership via Coordinator Sergeant Bucky Griffin and the Southern Region Traffic Enforcement Network. 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.
Roger Hayes, GOHS Law Enforcement Services Director
The Southern Region Traffic Enforcement Network includes law enforcement agencies in 12 counties, which include Atkinson, Lowndes, Berrien, Ben Hill, Brooks, Clinch, Coffee, Cook, Echols, Irwin, Lanier, and Tift counties.
The Valdosta Police Department has had long standing relationship with the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS), working together to keep our community safe. This grant will help provide resources that will be used to help keep South Georgia roads safe.
Chief Leslie Manahan, Interim Valdosta Police
The GOHS grant awards $20,000.00 to the Valdosta Police Department, with two thirds to support the activities of the traffic enforcement network and one third to be spent on traffic safety equipment for Valdosta Police Department. The coordinator in the Southern Region 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.
The GOHS grant awards $20,000.00 to the Valdosta Police Department, with two thirds to support the activities of the traffic enforcement network and one third to be spent on traffic safety equipment for Valdosta Police Department. The coordinator in the Southern Region 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.
