Southern Pines Police Department

Jurisdiction and responsibilities

Southern Pines Police Department is the municipal agency for Southern Pines. The town describes prevention and detection of crime, apprehension of offenders, public order, and protection of people and property as its principal police responsibilities.

How the agency is organized

Published divisions are Administration, Communications, Investigation, and Patrol. The department provides a separate organization-chart link and distinguishes its administrative telephone from dispatch. Its public FAQ covers reports, statistics, vacation checks, and special-attention requests.

Agency history and local context

A separate agency founding date was not established in the official material reviewed.

Official records and officer resources

Use the department’s official FAQ and report links for public-service requests. The organization chart and division pages are useful starting points for identifying supervisory and records responsibilities; they do not establish that a particular employee has a statutory civil-service appeal.

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 8; published agency label: Southern Pines. CIUS_Table_8_Offenses_Known_to_Law_Enforcement_by_State_by_City_2025.xlsx

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer downloads, table 78; published agency label: Southern Pines. Table_78_Full_time_Law_Enforcement_Employees_by_State_by_Cities_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 Southern Pines. Its 2024 reporting-status table lists: Reporting. These earlier figures are presented separately from the FBI’s 2025 tables.

Published Index-crime total: 407.

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 information
• NC SBI 2026 traffic-stop agency roster (published December 1, 2025)