The Seymour Police Department recently participated in Indiana’s rural demonstration project, federal highway safety funds administered by the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute. Officers working this detail are paid with grant money working overtime. The target area was 30 rural counties with the highest rate of unrestrained motorists in crashes. This project ended July 31st.

Seymour Police Captain Carl Lamb says that his department had five five officers working this campaign for a total of 36.5 hours. That resulted in the issuance of 133 warnings and citations, as well as one arrest for possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia.

Seymour Police say that city’s seat belt compliance rate is 96.4 percent, which is higher than the state average.