Delaware County Sheriff’s Office awarded Traffic Safety Grant

Sher­iff Rus­sell Mar­tin today announced the Ohio Depart­ment of Pub­lic Safety’s (ODPS) Office of Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Ser­vices (OCJS) awarded a lit­tle more than $65,000 in fed­eral traf­fic safety fund­ing to the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office for fed­eral fis­cal year 2012, which began Octo­ber 1 and con­tin­ues through Sep­tem­ber 30, 2013.

Num­bers com­piled by the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion show 1,356 traf­fic crashes

occurred in the county dur­ing 2011. Among these crashes, 15 peo­ple died and 110 were seri­ously injured

“While the num­ber of crashes has decreased slightly from 2010 to 2011, the num­ber of

deaths result­ing from crashes increased,” said Sher­iff Mar­tin. “This grant fund­ing will allow the office to attempt to increase the pub­lic per­cep­tion about traf­fic laws through­out the year by con­duct­ing highly vis­i­ble enforce­ment activities.”

Enforce­ment activ­i­ties may take a num­ber of for­mats, such as national mobi­liza­tions, local blitz peri­ods and over­time enforce­ment pro­grams based on local needs and as sup­ported by local prob­lem identification.

The funds are passed through OCJS from the National High­way Traf­fic Safety Admin­is­tra­tion to sup­port the efforts of safety part­ners statewide and focus on traf­fic safety pri­or­ity areas such as restraint use, impaired dri­ving, motor­cy­cle safety and youth­ful drivers.

Com­pet­i­tive grant pro­pos­als are accepted and reviewed by OCJS, with funds awarded to projects that will have the great­est impact on reduc­ing fatal crashes or sig­nif­i­cantly improv­ing traf­fic safety systems.

For more infor­ma­tion about the Office of Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Ser­vices and statewide efforts to improve safety on Ohio’s road­ways, log on to < http://www.ocjs.ohio.gov >.

Posted by Gary Henery on Oct 10 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.