Cleveland County Sheriff's Office

Jurisdiction and responsibilities

The sheriff serves Cleveland County alongside independently operated town police and Gardner-Webb University Police. The county dispatch center identifies the sheriff and Boiling Springs Police as distinct agencies it supports.

How the agency is organized

The official site provides separate administration, division and organizational-chart pages. Uniformed patrol is a published division; community interdiction work is also described in agency notices. The organizational chart is the appropriate source for the current reporting structure rather than an inferred hierarchy from rank titles.

Agency history and local context

The county was established in 1841, but no unsupported department founding date is assigned. The contemporary agency publishes public service information and its own operational notices.

Official records and officer resources

The agency website provides contact, division and organizational information. Its contact page identifies the office at Justice Place; use the agency's own address rather than the county government post-office box.

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: Cleveland. 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: Cleveland. 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 Cleveland 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: 648.

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.

• Official agency information
• Official agency information
• Official agency information
• SBI published 2026 agency roster; historical inventory, not current reporting obligation