Stanly County Sheriff’s Office

Jurisdiction and responsibilities

The Stanly County Sheriff’s Office is the county agency headquartered in Albemarle. It operates alongside the municipal departments in Albemarle, Badin, Locust, Norwood, Oakboro, Stanfield and Misenheimer. Locust also reaches across the county line, so county lists must link to a single department rather than duplicate it.

How the agency is organized

The official site separates administrative staff and detention-center information and maintains an Other Law Enforcement Agencies directory. That directory is useful for routing a request to the municipal department that generated a record. Sheriff headquarters and the courthouse are separately identified locations.

Official records and officer resources

Start with the official administrative and detention pages for the appropriate office. Stanly Community College’s campus-law-enforcement page names Albemarle Police for its main campus, Locust Police for Crutchfield and sheriff assistance as needed; this is not evidence of a separate college police department.

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 80; published agency label: Stanly. 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 Stanly Co. Sheriff. Its 2024 reporting-status table lists: Does Not Participate. These earlier figures are presented separately from the FBI’s 2025 tables.

Sources: SBI agency reporting status · SBI law-enforcement personnel.

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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