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An artist rendering of the Johnston County Public Safety Center

Sheriff’s Office, Emergency Management Will Move From Courthouse

SMITHFIELD – The Johnston County Sheriff’s Office, Emergency Management, and E-911 Center will relocate from the Johnston County Courthouse in Downtown Smithfield to a new Public Safety Center once it is complete. At their August meeting, County Commissioners awarded a bid for the new Center. It will be constructed on Highway 70 Business East at Yelverton Grove Road adjacent to a new County Jail currently under construction.

Eight companies bid on the new two-story 62,910 square foot Public Safety Center. Bordeaux Construction was the low bidder at $17,797,000. Other bids ranged from $17,865,400 to $20 million…