Alamance County Sheriff's Office

Jurisdiction and responsibilities

The Sheriff’s Office is the principal county law-enforcement agency for Alamance County. Its county functions are distinct from the municipal police in Burlington, Graham, Mebane, Haw River, and Elon and from the sworn campus agencies. The office’s own directory is particularly useful for distinguishing these organizations and routing a report or administrative inquiry to the correct agency.

How the agency is organized

The official website separates command staff, detention, animal control, civil process, public records, and policies and procedures. The published contact directory distinguishes the main office from detention and communications: 336-570-6777 is dispatch, while 336-570-6317 is detention. These services remain parts of the sheriff’s organization rather than separate police departments. Ordinary administrative hours and around-the-clock emergency service should not be treated as the same thing.

Official records and officer resources

The agency website provides employment, policy, records, and civil-process resources. People researching an employment or internal-investigation issue should identify the unit involved and consult the agency’s current published policy materials. A contact listing does not establish a response deadline or guarantee that a particular record is publicly releasable. Emergencies should be directed to 911.

FBI data · 2025

The following figures are from the FBI’s 2025 published agency tables. They describe a reporting period, not current staffing or an assessment of agency performance.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer downloads, table 10; published agency label: Alamance. CIUS_Table_10_Offenses_Known_to_Law_Enforcement_by_State_by_Metropolitan_and_Nonmetropolitan_Counties_2025.xlsx

This is a county-level agency row, not the total for every police department or every offense in the county.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer downloads, table 80; published agency label: Alamance. Table_80_Full_time_Law_Enforcement_Employees_by_State_by_Metropolitan_and_Nonmetropolitan_Counties_2025.xlsx

Blank or unavailable values remain “Not published.” Participating agencies and reporting scope vary. Campus figures concern the reporting institution; a city name does not expand them to all local residents. Read the data definitions and limitations.

NC SBI data · 2024

The NC SBI record is published under Alamance Co. Sheriff. Its 2024 reporting-status table lists: Reporting. These earlier figures are presented separately from the FBI’s 2025 tables.

Published Index-crime total: 634.

Sources: SBI agency reporting status · SBI law-enforcement personnel · SBI Index offenses by agency in county.

Personnel are a dated full-time payroll snapshot. Civilian classifications can include jail employees without outside police powers. These are not authorized-position or vacancy counts. Index-crime totals cover selected categories and are not totals of all crime.

Sources and review date

Official agency, government and institutional sources are linked below. Contact details and organizational information were reviewed September 24, 2026. Published statistical years are identified separately.

• Alamance County Sheriff's Office — official information
• Alamance Sheriff — local agency contacts