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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of North Carolina.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 504 law enforcement agencies employing 23,442 sworn police officers, about 254 for each 100,000 residents. [1]
By 1929, the number of registered vehicles increased to 503,590. As the number of vehicles increased, so did the number of people killed in traffic accidents: 690 deaths in 1929. Traffic control was of such concern that in 1929 the General Assembly passed an act authorizing the establishment of a State Highway Patrol.
Archaeological excavations performed by Dr. David Moore during the early 1980s, revealed artifacts and other evidence that the earliest inhabitants of McDowell County lived there from the Woodland period and Mississippian culture era, from 250 to 1500 AD. Dr. Moore discovered this material in an area close to the Catawba River, in and around an unusual topographical site known as Round Hill. [4]
The family of a 34-year-old homeless man has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies who they claim fatally shot him four times in the back last year in Carson.
Sheriffs within the State of North Carolina are directly elected to four-year terms. [2] Prior to 1938, sheriffs were elected to two-year terms. [ 2 ] The Wake County Sheriff's Office is headquartered within the Wake County John H. Baker Jr. Public Safety Center in Raleigh , North Carolina.
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As of the 2020 census, the population was 225,804, making it the 9th-most populous county in North Carolina. [3] The county seat is Concord, [4] which was incorporated in 1803. Cabarrus County is included in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Frank McGuirt was a Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives and a former sheriff of Union County, North Carolina. McGuirt was appointed to the legislature in March 2011 to replace Rep. Pryor Gibson , who had resigned.