(KLZA)-- The Falls City Police Department has been awarded three hand-held alcohol breath testing units through a traffic safety grant award from the Nebraska Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Office.

The units are valued at $345 each for a total grant of $1,035 and are to be used to test the amount of alcohol in a drivers breath.

The portable units display a digital reading of the blood alcohol level from a suspect's breath sample. The results along with field sobriety testing are used to establish probable cause that a driver is operating a vehicle while impaired.

Departments receiving this grant are all part of a statewide initiative to decrease the number of roadway crashes, fatalities and injuries.