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Atlanta Police Received H.E.A.T. Grant for Local DUI Enforcement

 The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) awarded the Atlanta Police Department a $57,500 grant award from its Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic or H.E.A.T. Program. Added to this award is $172,200 from the Atlanta Police Department, bringing the total grant program budget to $229,700.

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 Metro 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 impaired driver arrests, reduce dangerous speeders, educate the public about the dangers of DUI and provide a high visibility enforcement profile in the communities that need it most,” said GOHS Director Harris Blackwood.

The Atlanta Police Department’s H.E.A.T. Unit will develop and implement strategies using traffic enforcement and education to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities from drugs and alcohol, speed and aggressive driving, as well as the non-use of safety belts during the grant period that began October 1, 2013 and continuing until September 30, 2014.

For more information about the GOHS H.E.A.T. initiative contact Lieutenant Scarlett Woods, H.E.A.T. Coordinator, at (404) 656-6996 or swoods@gohs.ga.gov.

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