Hertford County Sheriff’s Office

Jurisdiction and responsibilities

The Hertford County Sheriff’s Office provides county law-enforcement service and is based in Winton. Its current county page identifies cooperation with municipal departments in Ahoskie, Murfreesboro and Winton, as well as neighboring county sheriffs. Those partnerships do not make each municipal department a sheriff division.

How the agency is organized

The county describes administrative, detective, uniform-patrol, communications and detention functions. Responsibilities include criminal and narcotics investigations, traffic enforcement, civil and criminal process, court security, prisoner transport, jail operations and school-resource work. The page describes continuous service; its undated employee and crime-rate claims are not reproduced as current statistics.

Official records and officer resources

The official page provides fingerprinting and appointment links, job opportunities, detention information and community services including Are You OK. The office’s public number and physical address are explicitly identified. Requests should distinguish sheriff records from town-police records or court files.

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: Hertford. 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: Hertford. 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 Hertford 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: 80.

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