Pender County Sheriff's Office

Jurisdiction and responsibilities

The Pender County Sheriff’s Office provides county law-enforcement services from Burgaw, alongside the separate municipal police departments in Burgaw, Surf City, and Topsail Beach. Its responsibilities span inland communities and the county’s coastal growth areas. Pender County’s current contact page identifies 605 E. Fremont Street as the sheriff’s location. The county-government footer on some sheriff pages lists a different Walker Street address and general county number; that footer should not be mistaken for the police headquarters.

How the agency is organized

The official county directory identifies uniform patrol, criminal investigation, the civil division, detention, school resource officers, animal control, and 911 communications. The communications center dispatches for the sheriff and the county’s three municipal police departments, along with emergency-response partners. Shared dispatch is an operational relationship, not a consolidation of those departments. The jail, animal-control service, communications center, and administrative office publish different telephone contacts.

Official records and officer resources

The sheriff’s website provides public-record requests, extra-patrol requests, anonymous tips, citizen feedback, fingerprinting, permit information, inmate services, recruitment, and a citizens academy. It also links a camera-transparency portal. Use the agency’s current published process for records or personnel-related inquiries. The main administrative number is 910-259-1212; emergencies should be reported to 911. A jail inquiry should use the detention contact identified on the current directory.

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: Pender. 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: Pender. 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 Pender 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: 463.

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.

• Pender Sheriff — official service portal
• Pender County — sheriff contact details
• Pender County — agency divisions
• Pender Sheriff — 911 Communications Center