Traffic Unit

The Traffic Unit is a team of highly motivated and extensively trained deputies with a mission to enforce traffic laws, reduce speeding vehicles, detect impaired drivers, and educate the community during traffic stops and at special events. Aggressive driving is identified as speeding, distracted driving, failure to use safety restraints, and impaired driving. The Traffic Unit have accepted the responsibility of reducing the likelihood of fatal accidents and serious injuries that is in direct result of aggressive driving. The Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office HEAT Unit would like to remind you not to make the selfish decision to drive aggressively and place your own life and other lives in danger.

Traffic Unit is a specialized team of trained Investigators to monitor and enforce the traffic laws within the county. The Traffic Unit is responsible, not only to enforce traffic law, but to investigate serious injuries and fatal accidents that occur. Each Investigator receives training to become accident reconstruction experts to accurately determine the cause of a vehicle collision. They provide educational briefings to citizens, schools, and residential homeowners
associations. The equipment used for speed detection are RADAR and Lidar devices, which every member of the Traffic Unit has received training in. A speed detection trailer is an additional asset that can be utilized in many citizen complaint areas where speeding is a concern.

The Traffic Unit would like to remind you to, please watch your speed and wear your seatbelt.