The Calhoun Police Department is pleased to announce it has received a $45,819.00 High Visibility Enforcement (HVE)
grant from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS). Funding for this grant is provided by the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration and is awarded based upon the partnership with The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety in
helping to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities across the State of Georgia.
High Visibility Enforcement combines highly visible and proactive law enforcement to target a specific traffic safety issue
designed to change unlawful and dangerous driving behaviors that contribute to most of the fatal and serious-injury traffic
crashes on our roads. Law enforcement efforts are combined with visibility elements and public notification on the
enforcement campaign to educate the public on traffic safety and promote voluntary compliance with the law.
“Federal and state crash data show sustained enforcement of traffic laws reduces crashes and saves lives on our roads,”
Allen Poole, Director of the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety said. “GOHS will continue to partner with state and local
law enforcement to implement projects and initiatives designed to protect everyone using our roads and to help reach our
goal of zero traffic deaths in Georgia and our nation.”
Chief Tony Pyle states, “The Calhoun Police Department’s Traffic Enforcement Officers are diligent in their efforts to make
the streets of Calhoun and Gordon County safe for our motorist and pedestrians. The grant funds awarded our agency
will be very beneficial in the ongoing efforts to keep our Ga. Streets safe here in Gordon County and Calhoun.
As law enforcement partners in the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over DUI and Click It Or Ticket seatbelt campaigns, the
Calhoun Police Department will also conduct mobilizations throughout the year in coordination with GOHS’s year-round
waves of high visibility patrols, multi-jurisdictional sobriety checkpoints.
The grant will continue through September of 2025.
