Effingham County Sheriff’s Office awarded over $29K for traffic enforcement

EFFINGHAM COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - The Effingham County Sheriff’s Office has been awarded a major traffic enforcement grant in the amount of $29,178.24 from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) in Atlanta, according to a press release WTOC just received.

The Effingham County Sheriff’s Office received the grant in recognition of its lifesaving work as the coordinating agency of GOHS’s Southeastern 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 Effingham County Sheriff’s Office through its continued leadership via Coordinator SFC. Jamie Thompson and the Southeastern Traffic Enforcement Network.

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.

Roger Hayes, GOHS Director of Law Enforcement Services

“Crash data shows enforcement and education of traffic laws are two of most effective countermeasures to help our state and nation reduce crashes and eliminate deaths and serious injuries on our roads,” said Allen Poole, Director of the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety. “Each life saved on our roads is one less family that will have to live with the pain of losing a loved one whose life was taken from them in a traffic crash that was completely preventable.”

The Southeastern Traffic Enforcement Network includes law enforcement agencies in 7 counties, which include Chatham, Bulloch, Bryan, Evans, Screven, Candler, and Effingham.

The coordinator in the southeastern 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, Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over, 100 Days of Summer HEAT, and Operation Southern Slow Down.