Aggressive traffic has been determined to be one of the leading causes of death and serious injury crashes on the
roadways of Georgia. Speeding and drunk driving are among the worst behaviours.
To address these and other highway safety problems the Georgia Governor's Office of Highway Safety created a
multi-jurisdictional task force to address aggressive and impaired driving in Georgia. Originally, three officers from six counties and
the City of College Park and the City of Atlanta came together to form a team of twenty-four officers to form H.E.A.T. Since this
formation, the H.E.A.T. (Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic) team has continued to grow with agencies being added across the
state each month.
In October of 2006 the Morrow Police Department received a grant from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety to
start a H.E.A.T. unit. There are currently H.E.A.T. Teams in 26 different Georgia law enforcement agencies, and the Georgia State
Patrol.
This H.E.A.T. grant allowed the Police Department to purchase two new vehicles, Dodge Chargers, and fully equip them
to fulfil a traffic enforcement role in the City. The vehicles have state-of-the-art digital cameras onboard to record traffic
violations and investigations.
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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 armed with materials to educate Georgia citizens about our laws related to aggressive and impaired driving. Education and enforcement
must go hand in hand if we are to be successful in reducing the number of crashes, fatalities and injuries on our highways.
Morrow's H.E.A.T. unit is out and about patrolling the roadways to keep you safe from aggressive and impaired drivers. Formed out of many different jurisdictional agencies across the state, the H.E.A.T. team is the elite force of law enforcement agents dedicated to the citizen drivers of Georgia.
