Carrboro Police Department

Jurisdiction and responsibilities

Carrboro Police provides municipal law enforcement for the Town of Carrboro. It is a separate organization from neighboring Chapel Hill Police, UNC Police, UNC Hospitals Police, and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. The town participates in Orange County’s shared emergency-communications system. Shared dispatch and regional cooperation do not merge the departments’ employment structures or records. The police front desk is at 100 N. Greensboro Street, rather than the town administrative offices on West Main Street.

How the agency is organized

The chief oversees department operations and policy. The administrative page divides captain-level responsibilities between investigation, program support, the diversion social worker and critical incident unit, and patrol and community services. Support employees assist with front-desk and records work. The diversion social worker works with officers to connect eligible participants with alternatives to criminal-justice involvement, mental-health case management, and community resources.

Official records and officer resources

Carrboro publishes policy and procedure materials, annual and periodic reports, complaint and commendation routes, employment information, and recording-review information. The administrative page directs requests for incident, arrest, and crash reports to Police2Citizen. It also identifies administration as the contact for media and ongoing-investigation questions. The published front-desk schedule is Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; it is not an emergency-response schedule. Call 911 for emergency assistance.

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: Carrboro. 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: Carrboro. 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 Carrboro. Its 2024 reporting-status table lists: Reporting. These earlier figures are presented separately from the FBI’s 2025 tables.

Published Index-crime total: 446.

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.

• Carrboro — police department
• Carrboro Police — administrative organization
• Orange County — shared 911 system