Lenoir County Sheriff’s Office

Jurisdiction and responsibilities

The Lenoir County Sheriff’s Office provides county policing and operates a La Grange satellite presence. The current county page is the basis for describing La Grange sheriff coverage rather than counting an old La Grange police roster name as another active independent employer.

How the agency is organized

The county describes courthouse security, civil process, detention, prisoner transport, drug enforcement, sex-offender monitoring and response in unincorporated areas. These county functions are distinct from Kinston and Pink Hill municipal police responsibilities.

Official records and officer resources

The sheriff publishes a separate Records Division page. Identify whether a request concerns an incident, detention record, civil process or personnel matter. Court records are maintained through the clerk, while a report made to a town or institutional police department should be requested from that department.

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: Lenoir. 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: Lenoir. 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 Lenoir Co. Sheriff. Its 2024 reporting-status table lists: Does Not Participate. These earlier figures are presented separately from the FBI’s 2025 tables.

Sources: SBI agency reporting status · SBI law-enforcement personnel.

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
• Records Division