THOMASVILLE, Ga. (WCTV) - The Thomasville Police Department announced they were recently awarded a grant to address traffic safety issues.

The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) gave TPD a $52,547.20 High Visibility Enforcement (HVE) grant to reduce car crashes and traffic deaths across Georgia.

The money will be used for traffic education, enforcement and child safety seat training.

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TPD will also participate in GOHS’s year-round campaigns, such as Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over and Click It or Ticket, conducting mobilizations, high visibility patrols and multi-jurisdictional sobriety checkpoints.

Allen Poole, Director of the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, said in a press release that traffic education is one of the most effective ways to

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