The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) has announced that the Habersham County Sheriff’s Office received two grants totaling just under $200,000 as part of the state’s commitment to combat impaired driving.
The county’s Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic (HEAT) got $166,754.40 and the county received an additional $32,814.72 from GOHS in recognition of its lifesaving work as the coordinating agency of GOHS’s Northeast Traffic Enforcement Network (TEN).
The Northeast Traffic Enforcement Network includes 40 law enforcement agencies in 10 counties, which include Habersham, Banks, White, Rabun, Stephens, Hall, Forsyth, Franklin, Jackson, and Hart counties.
The Habersham County Sheriff’s Office is one of 26 law enforcement agencies in Georgia to receive a (HEAT) grant for Federal Fiscal Year 2026, which began on October 1, 2025, and ends on September 30, 2026. As part of 16 traffic enforcement networks across the state that help enforce Georgia’s year-round safety belt, speed and impaired driving campaigns, the county received the TEN grant for its efforts.
“We appreciate the support of the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety in helping our agency reduce the number of injuries and fatalities on our roadways,” Habersham County Sheriff Robin Krockum said. “Thanks to the continued funding of this grant, we have been able to reduce the number of traffic fatalities from 23 to 9 within the past two years.”
The goal of the HEAT program is to combat crashes, injuries and fatalities caused by impaired driving and speeding, while also increasing seat belt use and educating the public about traffic safety and the dangers of DUI.
“Crash data shows enforcement and education of traffic laws are two of the 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.”
As law enforcement partners in the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over DUI campaign and the Click It or Ticket seatbelt campaigns, the Habersham 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 roadchecks and sobriety checkpoints.
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