Governor’s Office of Highway Safety Awards Grant to Fayetteville Police Department

Fayetteville, Georgia (November 5, 2026) The Fayetteville Police Department is pleased to reveal it has actually gotten a $71,276.80 High Visibility Enforcement (HVE) Grant from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS). Financing for this grant is supplied by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and is granted based upon the collaboration with the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety in assisting to minimize crashes, injuries, and deaths throughout the State of Georgia.

High Visibility Enforcement integrates extremely noticeable and proactive police to target a particular traffic security problem and created to alter illegal and harmful driving habits that add to the majority of the deadly and serious-injury traffic crashes on our roadways. Police efforts are integrated with exposure components and public alert on the enforcement project to inform the general public on traffic security and promote voluntary compliance with the law.

“Using information to recognize where and when traffic crashes are occurring in regional neighborhoods assists regional police identify when and where to patrol roadways and highways in hopes of having the ability to conserve lives and lower crashes through the enforcement of all traffic laws,” stated Allen Poole, Director of the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety. “Traffic laws are to safeguard everybody taking a trip on the roadway and following them assists to ensure you and everybody else make it home securely every day.”

“The City of Fayetteville enjoys to reveal the extension of our collaboration with the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety,” stated Police Chief Robert Mask. “Our objective declaration specifies that, with neighborhood collaboration as our structure, we are turned over to boost the lifestyle, look for services to neighborhood issues, and cultivate a sense of peace and security for all individuals within our neighborhood. This grant assists us be true to our objective declaration and much better serve our neighborhood.”

As police partners in the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” DUI and “Click It or Ticket” seat belt projects, the Fayetteville Police Department will likewise perform mobilizations throughout the year in coordination with GOHS’s year-round waves of high-visibility patrols and multi-jurisdictional sobriety checkpoints.

The grant will continue through September of 2027.

To learn more on the Fayetteville Police Department’s award, contact LT. Zach Campbell 770-461-4441/ e-mail: To learn more on GOHS and its highway security programs, see www.gahighwaysafety.org