Hendersonville Police Department

Jurisdiction and responsibilities

Hendersonville Police is the city’s municipal department. Its communications personnel also serve Laurel Park Police. This shared dispatch function does not make Laurel Park officers part of Hendersonville’s department or merge the two municipalities’ records.

How the agency is organized

The city describes three bureaus: patrol, investigations and support. Patrol includes traffic, school-resource and animal-related assignments. The division-and-command page explains how these functions fit together and supplies a better picture of the organization than a single undated staffing total.

Agency history and local context

The city traces the department’s service to 1847. This agency-specific history is retained separately from the histories of neighboring police departments and the county sheriff.

Official records and officer resources

Use the city’s police pages to locate current bureau contacts and public services. A request involving dispatch should identify the communications record, while a request about an officer’s actions should identify the employing department. The official organizational material is also a useful starting point for applicants researching assignments.

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

Published Index-crime total: 542.

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 or employing-government information
• Official department location or contact information