State agencies extend Hands Across the Border

Sgt. Teddy Fain (Alabama Highway Patrol), Maj. Eddie Johnson (Florida Highway Patrol)
and Capt. Pat Duff (Georgia State Patrol), left to right, shake hands in a symbolic gesture
to show continued united support for law enforcement efforts across the three bordering states.

The 16th Annual Hands Across the Border event kicked off in Pensacola, Fla., on August 27 at the Alabama and Florida welcome centers, with a second event held the following day at the Campbellton, Ga., welcome center. Hands Across the Border is an annual meeting of Alabama, Florida and Georgia law enforcement agencies to demonstrate their unified traffic enforcement efforts during the Labor Day Holiday weekend, one of the busiest travel holidays in the country.

The main purpose of the annual meeting is to get the message out to the motoring public that agencies from all three states are united in a common goal to reduce traffic injuries and fatalities on roadways in the tri-state region. Every year representatives from each of the three state patrols meet at the border and exchange handshakes in a symbolic gesture to reaffirm combined traffic enforcement efforts.

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