Wilson County Sheriff’s Office

Jurisdiction and responsibilities

The Wilson County Sheriff’s Office provides county services while Wilson Police serves the city. Official county agenda material documents sheriff-service arrangements involving Elm City, Lucama and Black Creek. Historical municipal roster entries should therefore not be counted automatically as independent operating departments.

How the agency is organized

The current county website and sheriffs’ association provide the sheriff’s office contact. The official sheriff contact block gives the office at 100 East Green Street in Wilson, separately from its post-office box. Detention uses a separately listed telephone.

Agency history and local context

A May 2023 county agenda included a proposed Black Creek law-enforcement agreement and described existing Elm City and Lucama arrangements. This dated document supports the service-structure history but should not be quoted as proof of unchanged 2026 staffing or contract terms.

Official records and officer resources

Use the official county office for sheriff records and administration. Wilson Police’s Barton College District is a city police service arrangement, not a separate college department. A later reported Stantonsburg transition requires current primary confirmation before its old department can be treated as active.

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: Wilson. 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: Wilson. 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 Wilson 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: 324.

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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