It’s hard to believe that Labor Day weekend, the unofficial end of summer, And with the holiday comes the 35th annual ‘Hands Across the Border’ law enforcement safety campaign, which starts Sunday. State and local law enforcement officers in Georgia will partner during the week with their fellow law enforcement officers in Alabama, Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee to take drunk and drugged drivers off the road at sobriety checkpoints. ‘Hands Across the Border’ started in 1991 when state troopers in southeast Georgia and northeast Florida challenged each other to see which agency could reduce the number of drunk and drugged driving crash deaths in their respective state through increased enforcement. Troopers from both states met at the Georgia Interstate 95 Welcome Center in St. Mary’s for a friendly handshake and photograph. The mobilization quickly expanded to a week-long enforcement campaign that, over the last 35 years, has included Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The mobilization will begin this year in Columbus, Georgia, on Sunday, August 23, and continue Monday in Ringgold, and Augusta on Tuesday, Savannah on Wednesday, and will finish where it all started 35 years ago at the Georgia Interstate 95 Welcome Center in St. Mary’s on Thursday. State and local law enforcement in Georgia will continue conducting sobriety checkpoints the following week to send a message before the Labor Day Holiday travel weekend that Georgia maintains a…
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