Recently, the department was named as a 100 percent reporting agency for 2015.
Chief Chuck Hasty said through the program the police department has received Alco Sensors, radar units as well as a speed trailer and other equipment.
Lieutenant Perry Parks is the Roanoke Rapids Police Department’s GHSP coordinator.
“Participating in the program helps save lives and gives local agencies an opportunity to receive grant funded police equipment,” Hasty said. “ The program helps us make the motoring public aware of different events such as Click it or Ticket it and the Booze it and Lose it campaigns throughout the year.”
The reports collected throughout the year play a major role in how much federal funding the state receives from the National Highway Safety Administration.
This directly determines how much funding is allocated throughout the state for highway safety projects.
