Union County Sheriff’s Office

Jurisdiction and responsibilities

The Union County Sheriff’s Office provides county services and dedicated contracted law enforcement in Indian Trail, Weddington, Lake Park, Wesley Chapel, Marvin and Wingate. Monroe, Marshville, Stallings and Waxhaw maintain separate municipal police agencies. A town service contract is not an additional independent police department.

How the agency is organized

The official divisions and Operations pages explain patrol and contract-community responsibilities. Wingate’s town page says the sheriff provides dedicated around-the-clock services and uses the former police building at 4007 US Highway 74 East as a sheriff substation. The Presson Road headquarters is a separate location.

Agency history and local context

The sheriff’s official divisions history traces Indian Trail’s contract relationship to the early 1990s. Current Wingate information documents the transition to sheriff service; its former police roster entry is retained only as a reconciliation note.

Official records and officer resources

The official Police to Citizen portal provides incident and related public information. For a city incident, verify whether the reporting agency was the sheriff or municipal police. Waxhaw’s crime map specifically includes Waxhaw and sheriff incidents and should not be presented as a complete combined county crime dataset.

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: Union. 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: Union. 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 Union 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: 1,449.

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
• Official agency information