Relocating to Gwinnett County, GA
There are3 County law enforcement agencies assigned to protecting the public of Gwinnett County reisdents.
The Gwinnett County Police Department is in charge of patrolling the express ways, roads , and local streets of Gwinnett, and answering calls of service IE.: Domestic violence calls, burglaries and other similar crimes.
The Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office is in charge of handling suspects who have been arrested by all law enforcement agencies all over the county whether they were arrested by the state highway patrol in the county or a city police agency within the county. The sheriff’s office is also in charge of serving eviction notices warrants and civil papers for the courts in Gwinnett County.
The Gwinnett County Corrections Department is responsible for watching the convicted inmates of the county housed in the county correctional facility on Hi-Hope Road in Lawrenceville, GA. The correction complex was scheduled to be closed down as of late in 2009 but as of early in 2010 the corrections department opened a small number of positions for correctional officers.
Diplomatic missions
The Consulate-General of Honduras in Atlanta is located in unincorporated Gwinnett County.
Transportation
By road
Gwinnett County is accessible by major interstates as well as several US Highways. Interstate 85 runs through Gwinnett from DeKalb County at its southwestern entry point, and Barrow County in the northeast. Interstate 985 branches off Interstate 85 at Exit 113 near Suwanee.
Several U.S. Highways run through Gwinnett County as well. US Route 23 runs through Duluth and Suwanee. US Route 29 runs through Central Gwinnett through Lawrenceville. US Route 78 runs through the Southern portion of Gwinnett County. All of the U.S. Highways are east-west throughout Gwinnett County (although U.S. Routes 23 and 29 run north-south throughout most of its route).
Gwinnett County is served by several Georgia State Routes. State Route 316 branches off Interstate 85 at Exit 106 after the Pleasant Hill Exit 104. This highway connects metropolitan Atlanta with Athens, where the University of Georgia is situated . A second route is State Route 124, also known as Scenic Highway. This serves as the primary route between Lawrenceville and Snellville. A 3rd highly used route is State Route 120, which runs from Tallapoosa (west of Atlanta) to Lawrenceville. A fourth major route is State Route 20, which runs Northwest to Southeast in Gwinnett County through Grayson, Lawrenceville, Buford, Sugar Hill, and Cumming (in Forsyth County). And a fifth major route is State Route 8, which runs side by side State Route 316, connects East to West between Auburn, Dacula, Lawrenceville (where it merges with US Route 29) and continues through Lilburn and in time into Atlanta and Austell.
Gwinnett County Transit is the County’s bus public transit system.
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