Guilford County law enforcement

Guilford County at a glance

Guilford County brings together two major municipal police systems, a county sheriff, university and community-college police, and an airport authority department. Greensboro is the county seat, while High Point also has a courthouse. Those two court locations and the several separate law-enforcement employers make agency identification particularly important: a Greensboro mailing address alone does not identify the office that holds a report or personnel policy.

Guilford lies in the central Piedmont and includes Greensboro, High Point, Gibsonville and smaller incorporated communities. NCpedia places it in the Cape Fear basin. Campus property and Piedmont Triad International Airport add institutional service areas to the county and municipal boundaries.

Law enforcement in Guilford County

The Guilford County Sheriff operates field, detention, court and investigative functions. Greensboro and High Point maintain their own municipal departments; Gibsonville serves its town. Separate sworn campus agencies include UNCG, North Carolina A&T, Guilford Technical Community College and High Point University. Piedmont Triad Airport Authority Police serves airport property. Greensboro ABC describes enforcement delivered by specially trained Greensboro police officers, so it should not be counted as another independently staffed department merely because it has a historical reporting entry.

County history and community context

The county was created in 1771 from portions of Orange and Rowan counties and named for the first Earl of Guilford. The seat moved from the earlier Guilford Courthouse community, also known as Martinsville, to Greensboro in 1808. That distinction matters when searching older court and land records. The region also preserves Revolutionary-era history at Guilford Courthouse and a later educational and industrial history associated with Greensboro and High Point. These are histories of the community, not founding dates assigned to every modern police agency.

Courts, public records and official resources

For a Greensboro police record, use the Police Records Management Division; for sheriff records, begin with the Sheriff’s Office and its Police-to-Citizen service. High Point’s police website supplies its own reporting and annual-report links. A campus security report should be requested from the relevant institution. The county and municipal employers maintain different records, so a request should identify the specific agency, date range and document sought.

The North Carolina Judicial Branch maintains the official Guilford County court page, with a courthouse directory, clerk contacts, jury information, local rules and forms, and links to online court services. Guilford has courthouse facilities in Greensboro and High Point. Confirm the location shown on the notice or calendar rather than assuming every matter is heard in Greensboro. The court page should be checked before traveling or selecting a filing location. An agency incident report and the resulting court case are different records; use the court clerk or Judicial Branch records service for case-file access.

Guilford County court directory →

FBI and SBI regional offices

FBI office coverage

Greensboro covers Guilford 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: 18,197. 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 Guilford 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 →

Service arrangements and roster notes

Historical reporting lists can include former departments, contract arrangements, facilities and subordinate units. The notes below distinguish those entries from the agency profiles above.

• Greensboro ABC Enforcement: Specially trained Greensboro Police officers provide the board enforcement partnership; no duplicate employer profile. Official source
• Lankford Protective Services: SBI non-government ORI directory candidate only. Current certification/employer status and any mergers or duplicate terminals require verification before separate active profile. Official source
• N.C. Central Region Special Police: SBI non-government ORI directory candidate only. Current certification/employer status and any mergers or duplicate terminals require verification before separate active profile. Official source
• Piedmont Company Police: SBI non-government ORI directory candidate only. Current certification/employer status and any mergers or duplicate terminals require verification before separate active profile. Official source
• Pyramids Village Special Police: SBI non-government ORI directory candidate only. Current certification/employer status and any mergers or duplicate terminals require verification before separate active profile. Official source
• State Special Police: SBI non-government ORI directory candidate only. Current certification/employer status and any mergers or duplicate terminals require verification before separate active profile. Official source
• Wackenhut Company Police: SBI non-government ORI directory candidate only. Current certification/employer status and any mergers or duplicate terminals require verification before separate active profile. Official source
• Williams Company Police: SBI non-government ORI directory candidate only. Current certification/employer status and any mergers or duplicate terminals require verification before separate active profile. Official source

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.

• North Carolina county government directory
• County government
• NCpedia county history and geography
• North Carolina Judicial Branch — county courts
• Guilford Sheriff — organization
• Greensboro Police — records and support
• Greensboro ABC — municipal police partnership