Crime & Safety
Bartow Sheriff's Office Awarded $100,000 H.E.A.T. Grant
The grant helps the sheriff's office crack down on aggressive driving, one of the leading causes of serious or fatal crashes on roadways.
CARTERSVILLE, GA -- The Bartow County Sheriff's Office has been awarded a grant from the Governor's Office Of Highway Safety. The county is the recipient of a Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic grant in the amount of $101,348.18 for the 2018 season.
The BCSO H.E.A.T. Unit is in the fifth year of operation, and works to crack down on aggressive driving, one of the leading causes of crashes that result in serious injuries and fatalities on Georgia roadways.
The Unit works to reduce the number of impaired driving crashes in Georgia and to enforce laws targeting aggressive driving around Georgia (SIGN UP: Get Patch's Daily Newsletter and Real Time News Alerts. Or, if you have an iPhone, download the free Patch app).
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H.E.A.T. is designed to educate the public and enforce laws related to impaired and aggressive driving. Each officer is equipped with materials to educate Georgia residents about state laws that regulate aggressive and impaired driving. Education and enforcement must go hand-in-hand for the Governor's Office of Highway Safety and its statewide partners to be successful in reducing the number of crashes, fatalities and injuries on our highways.
As law enforcement partners in the Operation Zero Tolerance DUI and Click It or Ticket seatbelt campaigns, the Bartow County Sheriff’s Office will also conduct mobilizations throughout the year in coordination with GOHS’s year-round waves of high visibility patrols, multi-jurisdictional road checks and sobriety checkpoints.
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Here are some H.E.A.T statistics offered by the Bartow County Sheriff's Office from October 2016 to September 2017:
- D.U.I. arrests: 96; contacts: 229
- Speeding citations: 257; warnings: 2,331
- Seatbelt citations: 16; warnings: 634
- Fugitive apprehensions: 22
- Drug charges: 43
- Other citations & warrants: 330
- Community events: 14
Photo: From left to right are Deputy Philip Abernathy, Deputy Corbett Tomsovic, Sgt. Matt Pifer and Sheriff Millsap. Credit: Bartow County Sheriff's Office
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