UNC Hospitals Police

Jurisdiction and responsibilities

UNC Hospitals Police is a designated campus law-enforcement agency within UNC Health’s public-safety structure. The health system’s current leadership posting assigns police and security responsibilities at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, Hillsborough Hospital, the Youth Behavioral Health Hospital in Butner, Chatham Hospital, and specified off-campus ambulatory locations. This does not establish countywide patrol authority or mean that every UNC Health affiliate is policed by the same department. A separate Siler City police-officer posting confirms sworn hospital-police work in Chatham County.

How the agency is organized

The published leadership structure places the director and deputy chief under the health system’s executive director for police and public safety and police chief. Responsibilities encompass commissioned officers, uniformed security, and parking and transportation operations. UNC Health explicitly describes coordination with UNC-Chapel Hill campus police and municipal, county, and state agencies, confirming that these are separate organizations. The hospital’s officer description includes emergency response, campus patrol, investigations, evidence handling, de-escalation, and coordination during patient-custody and transport issues.

Official records and officer resources

UNC Health’s career materials identify hospital police as a state-employed organization and specify North Carolina law-enforcement certification requirements for sworn officer appointments. Applicants should use the current posting for position-specific qualifications and benefits. Sworn-officer responsibilities, uniformed-security duties, and clinical decisions should not be treated as interchangeable roles. This directory does not substitute a general hospital reception address or switchboard for a verified police headquarters and administrative telephone.

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 81; published agency label: University of North Carolina Hospitals. Table_81_Full_time_Law_Enforcement_Employees_by_State_by_State_Tribal_and_Other_Agencies_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 UNC Hospitals. 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.

• UNC Health — hospital police organization and facility scope
• UNC Health — sworn hospital police duties in Siler City