Wayne County Sheriff’s Office

Jurisdiction and responsibilities

The Wayne County Sheriff’s Office serves the county from Goldsboro. Municipal departments include Goldsboro, Fremont, Mount Olive, Pikeville and Walnut Creek. Hospital and military law-enforcement responsibilities should be identified separately; their presence does not give them ordinary countywide patrol jurisdiction.

How the agency is organized

The county’s official sheriff page locates headquarters at 207 East Chestnut Street. Administrative and detention telephone listings are distinct. The association’s post-office box is retained only as a mailing address, not as a future map marker.

Official records and officer resources

The official county sheriff page is the starting point for current public services and employment information. A crash report created by a municipal department should be requested through that department’s published route, while court case information is maintained by the Judicial Branch.

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: Wayne. 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: Wayne. 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 Wayne 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: 1,395.

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
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