Richmond County Sheriff’s Office

Jurisdiction and responsibilities

Richmond County Sheriff is the North Carolina county agency based in Rockingham. The official site uses the .net domain; the similarly named .com sheriff site concerns Georgia. Rockingham city police is another local agency and Rockingham County is a different county.

How the agency is organized

The current sheriff website identifies civil, court, criminal-investigation, jail and patrol divisions, including canine and special-response functions. A patrol assignment, detention service and civil-paper matter therefore have different administrative routes within the same office.

Official records and officer resources

The official site provides victim services, employment forms, permit resources and inmate-information links. Use those North Carolina sources for current contacts and applications. A municipal police incident or Judicial Branch court file should be requested from its own custodian.

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: Richmond. 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: Richmond. 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 Richmond 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: 1,063.

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.

• Official agency or employing-government information
• County government local agency references