The Georgia Governor's Office of Highway Safety has taken federal funds and made DUI arrest quotas a condition of supplemental funding for local police departments DUI enforcement units.  These units call "HEAT" Units must made monthly performance objectives or performance standards to receive the "free" state and federal money.  A performance standard is just another word for quota.  In 2006, there were almost $4.5 millions dollars in "HEAT" grants distributed in consideration for instituting DUI quotas.  In fact the Cobb DUI Heat Unit received MADD's award for agency of the year.   There are Heat Units in the following police agencies: Barrow DUI Heat Unit in theSheriff's Office, Carroll County DUI HEAT Unit in the Sheriff's Office, Cherokee DUI HEAT Unit in the County Sheriff's Office, Coweta DUI HEAT Unit in the County Sheriff's Office, Dougherty DUI HEAT Unit in the County Police Department, Douglas DUI HEAT Unit in the County Sheriff's Office, Dublin DUI HEAT Unit in the Police Department, Duluth DUI HEAT Unit in the Police Department, Hall DUI HEAT Unit in the County Sheriff's Office, Henry DUI HEAT Unit in the County Police Department, Richmond DUI HEAT Unit in the County Sheriff's Office, Albany DUI HEAT Unit in the Police Department, Savannah ChathamDUI HEAT Unit in the Police Department, Georgia State Patrol DUI HEAT Unit, Atlanta DUI HEAT Unit in the Police Department, College Park DUI HEAT Unit in the Police Department, Walton DUI HEAT Unit in the County Sheriff's Office, Cobb DUI HEAT Unit in the County Police Department, Clayton County DUI HEAT Unit in the Police Department, DeKalb DUI HEAT Unit in the County Police Department, Bibb DUI HEAT Unit in the County Sheriff's Office, Morrow DUI HEAT Unit in the Police Department, Sandy Springs DUI HEAT Unit in the Police Department, Valdosta DUI HEAT Unit in the city police department.

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