GOHS awards high visibility enforcement grant to the City of Monroe Police Department

(Monroe, Ga) The City of Monroe Police Department announced it has received a $55,368.00 High Visibility Enforcement (HVE) grant from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS). This grant funding is provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and is awarded based upon the partnership with the GOHS to help reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities across the State.

According to the press release, 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 the roads. Law enforcement efforts are combined with visibility elements along with public notification on the enforcement campaign to educate the public on traffic safety and promote voluntary compliance with the law.

“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,” Alen Poole, director of the GOHS said in a press release. “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 City of Monroe Police Department’s Traffic Enforcement Unit remains dedicated to promoting highway safety through diligent enforcement and public education. In partnership with the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, our efforts focus on reducing traffic crashes related to distracted driving and increasing seatbelt compliance. Together, we are committed to safeguarding the lives of everyone who travels on Georgia’s roadways,” MPD Major Matt McClung added.

As law enforcement partners in the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over DUI and Click it Or Ticket seatbelt campaigns, the MPD officers 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 2026.

For more information on the City of Monroe Police Department’s award, contact Sergeant Stephen Rutledge at 470-971-0268 or by email at Rutledge@MonroeGA.Gov. For more information on GOHS and its highway safety programs visit www.gahighwaysafety.org.