Pitt County Sheriff's Office

Jurisdiction and responsibilities

The Sheriff’s Office serves Pitt County and operates its detention center. County government specifically identifies Simpson, Falkland, Fountain and Grimesland, together with the unincorporated communities of Bell Arthur, Stokes and Blackjack, as places without their own local police department. Municipal, university and hospital police have separate identities elsewhere in the county. The sheriff’s patrol division also publishes an airport-security assignment for Pitt–Greenville Airport.

How the agency is organized

Published functions include patrol, criminal investigations, special operations, civil enforcement, communications, detention, school resource officers and K9 service. The investigations division distinguishes major-crime investigations from specialized narcotics, street-crime and human-trafficking work. Community programs include a citizens’ academy, neighborhood watches, services for seniors, youth activities and house checks. These are functions within one sheriff’s organization, not additional departments to count separately.

Official records and officer resources

The official contact page provides separate channels for public-records requests, recruitment, civil process, complaints and compliments. Use the published careers and hiring-process links for current vacancies and requirements. Reports needing a deputy should go to the communications center at 252-830-4141; the office warns that email and social media are not continuously monitored. For an employment concern, distinguish sheriff’s personnel records from county-wide administrative records and from records maintained by another 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.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer downloads, table 10; published agency label: Pitt. 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: Pitt. 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 Pitt 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: 773.

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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