NORTH CAROLINA AGENCY GUIDES
North Carolina State Highway Patrol
Jurisdiction, organization, official contacts, history and published law-enforcement data for North Carolina State Highway Patrol.
- Agency or unit type
- State highway patrol
- Official website
- Visit the official agency website
- Published contact
- 919-733-7952
- Published office location
- 512 North Salisbury Street, Raleigh, NC
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Jurisdiction and responsibilities
The State Highway Patrol provides North Carolina’s statewide highway-safety enforcement presence. Its public mission emphasizes preventing and investigating collisions and enforcing traffic laws. Troopers also manage traffic during hurricane evacuations and hazardous-material incidents. A statewide remit does not make every crash or traffic record a Highway Patrol record: city police, sheriffs and other authorized agencies may investigate incidents within their own responsibilities.
How the agency is organized
The Patrol’s public overview identifies eight troop locations with traffic-safety information officers. Troops and district posts are subordinate geographic operations of one state agency, not independent departments. The current SHP website also places State Capitol Police services and the Investigative Services Unit within its organization. The latter carries forward the former DMV License and Theft Bureau’s vehicle-fraud and regulatory work.
Agency history and local context
The present organization should be distinguished from historical directories that place License and Theft at DMV or list State Capitol Police under an older parent department. The Investigative Services Unit’s official history identifies its predecessor’s creation in 1921; that is not the founding date of the Highway Patrol.
Official records and officer resources
Use the Patrol’s troop-location directory for the office handling a particular county, and its official career and safety resources for current programs. The published central contact is 919-733-7952 at 512 North Salisbury Street in Raleigh. A district station should not be substituted for statewide headquarters or counted as an additional agency.
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 | 1,685 |
| Civilian employees | 508 |
| Total full-time employees | 2,193 |
Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer downloads, table 76; published agency label: Highway Patrol. Table_76_Full_time_State_Law_Enforcement_Employees_by_State_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 North Carolina State Highway Patrol. Its 2024 reporting-status table lists: Does Not Participate. These earlier figures are presented separately from the FBI’s 2025 tables.
| Personnel category | Published count |
|---|---|
| Sworn officers | 1,559 |
| Civilian employees | 449 |
| Total full-time employees | 2,008 |
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.
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