National Traffic Safety Campaigns
The Florida Law Enforcement Liaison Program promotes and facilities law enforcement participation in the following three national education and enforcement campaign waves:
- Click It or Ticket
Approximate Dates: May 13 - June 2
Target: Safety Belt Use
- Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over
Approximate Dates: August 14 - September 2
Target: Impaired Driving Prevention
- Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over
Approximate Dates: December 13 - January 1
Target: Impaired Driving Prevention
Additional Campaigns
- Operation Southern Slow Down
Approximate Dates: July 15 - 20
Target: Speeding & Aggressive Driving Prevention
- Hands Across the Border
Approximate Date: August 30
Target: Impaired Driving Prevention
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over
Due to the importance of impaired driving campaigns to highway safety and the central role law enforcement plays in these initiatives, Florida developed the Florida LEL Impaired Driving Awareness Program to encourage active participation through educational printed materials. The program is designed to prioritize impaired driving enforcement across Florida and sustain high participation levels in the campaign's most critical component: law enforcement.
The program's goal is to reduce alcohol-related crashes, serious injuries, and fatalities on Florida's roadways. It achieves this by encouraging law enforcement agencies to place greater emphasis on routine impaired driving enforcement, conduct high-visibility DUI operations (such as sobriety checkpoints), expand DUI enforcement training for officers, and raise public awareness about the State's impaired driving crash problem.
To participate, agencies must submit Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over activity reports online by a specified deadline. These reports are then compiled and categorized based on the campaign.
Click It or Ticket
To ensure Florida's law enforcement agencies remain actively and enthusiastically engaged in occupant restraint enforcement, the Florida LEL Occupant Protection Awareness Program aims to increase high-visibility enforcement of safety belt and child restraint laws. The program achieves this by providing printed educational materials, such as banners and yard signs, while recognizing the campaign's most vital component: law enforcement.
Law enforcement agencies throughout Florida are encouraged to conduct high-visibility enforcement operations during the campaign wave and submit activity reports online by a specified deadline.
Operation Southern Slow Down
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) requested that states within NHTSA Region IV actively participate in the Operation Southern Slow Down traffic safety campaign. During July, Florida joins Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee in this week-long speed and aggressive driving enforcement initiative.
State and local law enforcement agencies across all five states conduct the campaign, focusing on detecting and citing drivers who ignore posted speed limits. The overall goal is to highlight and reduce the prevalence of this dangerous behavior. Press events are held at state welcome centers with neighboring states to amplify the message and help reduce speed-related crashes, serious injuries, and fatalities on interstates, major highways, and local roads.
At the conclusion of the campaign wave, law enforcement agencies submit activity reports online by a specified deadline.
Hands Across the Border
With the increase in summer holiday travel comes an unfortunate rise in crashes on Florida’s highways and roadways. Impaired driving, aggressive driving, distracted driving, and the failure of drivers and passengers to wear their seat belts result in more serious injuries and fatalities on Florida's roadways.
The annual Hands Across the Border campaign began in 1991 as an effort to combat impaired driving. During this event, law enforcement agencies from Florida, Georgia, and Alabama team up to conduct roadside sobriety checkpoints, demonstrating their shared commitment to reducing fatalities and injuries on our roadways.
For six days leading up to Labor Day weekend, the Florida Highway Patrol and local law enforcement agencies join their partners in bordering states to form a major zero-tolerance impaired driving enforcement effort across the Southeast. Troopers, police officers, and sheriff’s deputies from Florida, Georgia, and Alabama converge near state lines to reinforce their common goal of saving lives. These events are marked by the iconic handshake between command staff from different law enforcement agencies, reaffirming their commitment to the campaign.
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