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As Labor Day weekend approaches, drunk drivers will have nowhere to run from police in Georgia because traffic enforcement officers from every neighboring state will be waiting at state lines to take them into custody.

It’s time for Georgia’s 21st Annual ‘Hands Across the Border’ intra-state impaired driving and highway safety crackdown. This annual law enforcement tradition leading up to the Labor Day weekend now marks 21 years of making the entire southeast safer from drunk drivers.

For five days leading up to Labor Day weekend, police, sheriff’s deputies and state troopers throughout Georgia will rendezvous in communities near the state line to set up checkpoints and catch impaired drivers entering and leaving Georgia.

They will also gather with the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety at state welcome centers for media interviews and the traditional handshake to signify their partnership in this year’s campaign. But it’s not about the media attention, Georgia’s peace officers will be launching this 5-day, high-visibility enforcement campaign to put a serious dent in the number of impaired drivers Georgia sees at the end of the summer.

‘Hands Across the Border’ will kick off on Sunday, August 26^th and continue through Thursday, August 30^th. Law enforcement will be sending a message to every corner of the state that impaired driving will not be tolerated.