Burlington Police Department

Jurisdiction and responsibilities

Burlington Police is the municipal law-enforcement department for the City of Burlington. Its official information distinguishes routine administration from police dispatch. The department’s location on West Front Street is a police facility; the mailing post-office-box ZIP code used elsewhere in city materials should not replace the physical address.

How the agency is organized

The departmental directory organizes work into administration, operations, logistics, and criminal investigations. Administration includes professional accountability, body-camera information, strategic planning, and community advisory resources. Operations includes patrol, traffic, K-9, school-resource officers, community relations, and records. Logistics covers communications, evidence, and training. The investigations listing includes major crimes, special victims, crime analysis, youth diversion, and victim-witness assistance. Burlington’s at-a-glance information identifies patrol as its largest component and describes crisis-intervention training as a departmentwide requirement.

Official records and officer resources

The city publishes a 2026–2031 strategic plan alongside accountability and community information. Officers, applicants, and residents can use these materials to understand the department’s stated priorities and available contact routes. Use the administrative line for ordinary office questions; the separately published dispatch line is 336-229-3500. Published program descriptions describe the department’s structure and goals, not an independent assessment of performance.

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 8; published agency label: Burlington. CIUS_Table_8_Offenses_Known_to_Law_Enforcement_by_State_by_City_2025.xlsx

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer downloads, table 78; published agency label: Burlington. Table_78_Full_time_Law_Enforcement_Employees_by_State_by_Cities_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 Burlington. Its 2024 reporting-status table lists: Reporting. These earlier figures are presented separately from the FBI’s 2025 tables.

Published Index-crime total: 2,477.

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.

• Burlington Police Department — official information
• Burlington Police at a glance
• City government — physical police address
• Alamance Sheriff — local agency contacts