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Lake Lure Police Department
Jurisdiction, organization, official contacts, history and published law-enforcement data for Lake Lure Police Department.
- Agency or unit type
- Municipal police
- County guides
- Rutherford County
- Official website
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- Published contact
- 828-625-4911
- Published office location
- 920 Buffalo Creek Road, Lake Lure, NC 28746
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Jurisdiction and responsibilities
Lake Lure Police is the town’s full-service municipal law-enforcement department. Its work includes roads, the lake and shoreline, with responsibilities involving permanent residents as well as visitors. The lake-patrol function makes its service setting different from an exclusively inland town department.
How the agency is organized
The town describes a team with varied law-enforcement training and professional backgrounds. The public page groups services around patrol zones, home checks, property protection, medication disposal, extra-duty assignments and victim notification. It publishes a current street contact at 920 Buffalo Creek Road.
Agency history and local context
The department’s official page supplies contemporary service information but does not verify a founding year. Lake Lure’s present public-safety responsibilities should be assessed using current notices rather than older visitor directories.
Official records and officer resources
The official site links an extra-duty application, employment information, patrol-zone and home-watch resources, police bulletins, community-service numbers and property-inventory guidance. Confirm arrangements directly for a specific service or visit.
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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.
| Personnel category | Published count |
|---|---|
| Sworn officers | 8 |
| Civilian employees | 1 |
| Total full-time employees | 9 |
Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer downloads, table 78; published agency label: Lake Lure. 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 Lake Lure. Its 2024 reporting-status table lists: Reporting. These earlier figures are presented separately from the FBI’s 2025 tables.
| Personnel category | Published count |
|---|---|
| Sworn officers | 9 |
| Civilian employees | 1 |
| Total full-time employees | 10 |
| Offense category | Published count |
|---|---|
| Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter | 0 |
| Rape | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 |
| Aggravated assault | 1 |
| Burglary | 2 |
| Larceny-theft | 4 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 1 |
Published Index-crime total: 8.
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.
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