The Calhoun Police Department released a statement today announcing its participation in the statewide “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign, an effort aimed at cracking down on alcohol- and drug-impaired driving.
The department will take part in the national mobilization through September 7, joining law enforcement agencies across Georgia in an effort to reduce impaired-driving crashes, injuries and deaths.
Calhoun Police released the following statement:
August 19 thru September 7, 2026 the Calhoun Police Department will join the Georgia
Governor’s Office of Highway Safety’s “DRIVE SOBER OR GET PULLED OVER” a
National Mobilization to crackdown on alcohol and drug-impaired drivers.
As a community we should no longer tolerate anyone being injured and killed because
people continue to drive under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Every day you see
and hear about such tragedies. It will take the collective outrage of all of us to reach
drunk and drugged drivers. No one should look the other way when they see someone
at risk. Such carelessness is always life threatening and never worth the risk.
Captain Nicholson states, “The Calhoun Police Department will do our part. The public
can support us by speaking up to friends, relatives and neighbors if they are driving
under the influence. If reminding them they’re putting their lives and other people’s
lives at deadly risk does not work, tell them that if an officer spots them during one of
the systematic sobriety checkpoints, they will face being arrested and prosecution.”
The Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, in partnership with more than 350
law enforcement agencies across the state, is implementing “DRIVE SOBER OR GET
PULLED OVER.” The goal of this National Campaign is to significantly decrease
incidents of deaths and injury on Georgia’s roadways involving drunk and drugged
drivers.
If the community works together to spread the word and change behaviors related to
impaired driving, we can all help stem the rising tide of unnecessary crashes, injuries
and deaths on Georgia’s roadways.