Alamance County law enforcement

Alamance County at a glance

Alamance County brings together the county seat of Graham, the City of Burlington, smaller municipalities along the Haw River corridor, and two distinct campus policing settings. For a resident, employee, or visitor trying to identify the right agency, the important distinction is between the county sheriff, a city or town department, and the police employed by a college. Elon University Police and the Town of Elon Police are separate organizations. Alamance Community College also publishes its own sworn-police authority in its annual security report.

The county lies in the north-central Piedmont and the Cape Fear river basin. NCpedia identifies Caswell, Chatham, Guilford, Orange, and Randolph as neighboring counties. This matters when a city or campus name is used as a geographic shortcut: municipal boundaries and a street address should be checked rather than assuming the county from the mailing city.

Law enforcement in Alamance County

The sheriff describes its office as the principal county law-enforcement agency. Municipal services are separately provided by Burlington, Graham, Mebane, Haw River, and Elon; cross-county Gibsonville is linked through the Guilford profile. Burlington publishes separate administration, operations, logistics, and criminal-investigation functions. Elon University identifies certified police officers, community-service officers, communications dispatchers, and traffic staff, with mutual-aid agreements involving other Alamance agencies. The community college’s 2025 security report likewise distinguishes sworn officers from security personnel and describes the college property and adjacent-road scope of their authority.

County history and community context

Alamance was created from Orange County in 1849. Its name is associated with Great Alamance Creek and the 1771 battle that ended the Regulator uprising. Graham was incorporated in 1851. The county’s later identity was shaped by textile manufacturing, illustrated by Glencoe Mill Village, and by rail connections around Burlington. Snow Camp preserves a different strand of local history through its Quaker heritage.

Courts, public records and official resources

The Alamance County government website is the starting point for county department contacts, board materials, property information, and the Register of Deeds. The sheriff and any municipal or campus police department maintain their own operational records; identify the agency that created a report before directing an inquiry. For older county material, the State Archives County Records Guide separates court, land, estate, tax, and other record series. Its finding aids describe archival holdings rather than promising that a particular file is available online.

The North Carolina Judicial Branch maintains a dedicated Alamance County page with courthouse information, a contact directory, jury-service guidance, local rules and forms, and payment information. It also links the statewide eCourts services. Use the county contact directory to identify the Clerk of Superior Court or another court office; a police station is not the filing office for a court case. Court schedules and building instructions should be checked on the Judicial Branch site before a visit.

Alamance County court directory →

FBI and SBI regional offices

FBI office coverage

Greensboro covers Alamance County under the Charlotte Field Office. The FBI investigates federal matters; this assignment does not replace local emergency response.

Charlotte Field Office: 704-672-6100 · 7915 Microsoft Way, Charlotte, NC 28273. Official FBI coverage directory.

NC SBI district

Northern Piedmont District — Greensboro · 501 Industrial Ave., Greensboro, N.C. 27406 · (336) 303-4840. Official SBI district-office directory.

For an emergency call 911. The federal and state office contacts are provided for jurisdictional research and administrative inquiries.

Published crime and personnel data

The NC SBI’s county table reports selected Index offenses from contributing agencies in 2024. It is separate from the FBI’s 2025 reporting year and is not a count of all possible offenses.

Published county-table Index total: 4,448. SBI Index offenses by agency in county.

A county total depends on the reporting agencies and source-table coverage. Missing agencies or blank values must not be treated as zero. Published totals are not a safety ranking and do not establish an agency’s performance.

These are individual agency rows, not whole-county totals. Cross-county departments may serve territory beyond Alamance County. Each linked profile identifies its FBI source table and reporting label. Do not sum these rows to compare with the SBI’s different year and coverage.

Explore statewide FBI figures, reporting definitions and methodology →

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.

• NC government county directory — county seat and formation
• Alamance County government
• Library of North Carolina / NCpedia — county history
• NC Judicial Branch — Alamance County
• NC State Archives — County Records Guide
• Alamance Sheriff — agency directory
• Elon University — police authority and organization
• Alamance Community College — 2025 security report