Rockingham County law enforcement

Rockingham County at a glance

Rockingham County lies along the Virginia border in North Carolina’s northern Piedmont. Wentworth is the county seat, while Eden and Reidsville are separate cities with their own police departments. Madison, Mayodan and Stoneville also operate municipal departments. The City of Rockingham is in Richmond County and should not be confused with this county when searching for an agency, report or courthouse.

The Dan and Mayo rivers help explain the location of historic settlements, industry and recreation. NCpedia places the county in the Roanoke and Cape Fear river basins. Rural communities and incorporated towns have different service boundaries, while Haw River and Mayo River state parks add state-managed public lands. A postal city is not a substitute for the actual incident location or municipal boundary.

Law enforcement in Rockingham County

The Sheriff’s Office divides its work among field operations, criminal investigations, civil process and administration, and detention. Its civil-process responsibilities extend throughout the county, including incorporated towns that maintain their own police. Wentworth contracts for a dedicated sheriff’s deputy, with the wider Sheriff’s Office covering the town when that deputy is unavailable; this is not an additional independent town department. Eden, Reidsville, Madison, Mayodan and Stoneville each publish current municipal-police information. Rockingham Community College describes campus security and assistance from the Sheriff’s Office, while its published security report identifies Reidsville Police for the Center for Construction Trades and Woodworking. The college’s security personnel are not counted as a separate sworn police force.

County history and community context

The county was created from Guilford County in 1785 and named for Charles Watson-Wentworth, the second Marquis of Rockingham. Saura, also called Cheraw, people lived in the region before later English, Scotch-Irish and German settlement. Wentworth incorporated in 1799. Eden formed in 1967 through the consolidation of Leaksville, Draper and Spray; those older community names remain relevant to historical records. Wright Tavern and the Troublesome Creek Ironworks are among the county’s surviving historical reference points. These dates describe the county and its communities, not the founding date of every modern department.

Courts, public records and official resources

The county website provides a public-records request route, and the Sheriff’s Office maintains a civil-process and records section. Town police are separate custodians: Madison specifically publishes public@townofmadison.org for accident and other report requests, while Reidsville lists a police front desk at West Morehead Street. Identify the agency, incident date, location and report number if known. The county’s general resource directory contains some older entries, so direct department pages take priority for current headquarters and contact information. An administrative telephone is not an emergency-reporting channel.

The North Carolina Judicial Branch maintains the official Rockingham County court page, with a courthouse directory, clerk contacts, jury information, local rules and forms, and links to online court services. The Judicial Center is listed at 170 Highway 65, Reidsville, with a Wentworth mailing address. Its published main telephone is 336-634-6000. This courthouse address differs from the sheriff’s headquarters at 130 Justice Center Drive. The court page should be checked before traveling or selecting a filing location. An agency incident report and the resulting court case are different records; use the court clerk or Judicial Branch records service for case-file access.

Rockingham County court directory →

FBI and SBI regional offices

FBI office coverage

Greensboro covers Rockingham County under the Charlotte Field Office. The FBI investigates federal matters; this assignment does not replace local emergency response.

Charlotte Field Office: 704-672-6100 · 7915 Microsoft Way, Charlotte, NC 28273. Official FBI coverage directory.

NC SBI district

Northern Piedmont District — Greensboro · 501 Industrial Ave., Greensboro, N.C. 27406 · (336) 303-4840. Official SBI district-office directory.

For an emergency call 911. The federal and state office contacts are provided for jurisdictional research and administrative inquiries.

Published crime and personnel data

The NC SBI’s county table reports selected Index offenses from contributing agencies in 2024. It is separate from the FBI’s 2025 reporting year and is not a count of all possible offenses.

Published county-table Index total: 1,614. SBI Index offenses by agency in county.

A county total depends on the reporting agencies and source-table coverage. Missing agencies or blank values must not be treated as zero. Published totals are not a safety ranking and do not establish an agency’s performance.

These are individual agency rows, not whole-county totals. Cross-county departments may serve territory beyond Rockingham County. Each linked profile identifies its FBI source table and reporting label. Do not sum these rows to compare with the SBI’s different year and coverage.

Explore statewide FBI figures, reporting definitions and methodology →

Service arrangements and roster notes

Historical reporting lists can include former departments, contract arrangements, facilities and subordinate units. The notes below distinguish those entries from the agency profiles above.

• Wentworth Police / Wentworth Patrol: Contract patrol by the Rockingham County Sheriff; not a separate police employer. Official source
• Rockingham Community College security: Non-sworn campus security; college report identifies sheriff coverage for the main campus and Reidsville Police for the Center for Construction Trades and Woodworking. Official source
• Haw River and Mayo River state parks: State park locations, not independent departments. Official source
• Haw River State Park and Mayo River State Park are locations within the statewide State Parks ranger system, not two independent local departments.

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.

• North Carolina county government directory
• County government
• NCpedia county history and geography
• North Carolina Judicial Branch — county courts
• Sheriff — current organization
• Sheriff — civil process and records
• Wentworth contract patrol
• County resource and records navigation
• Rockingham Community College safety services
• College security report — authority and jurisdiction
• Rockingham Judicial Center