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Gaston County Police

The Gaston County Police are the main law enforcement agency for the county. The County Police was created in the late 1950's in which the patrol and enforcement powers were divorced from the Sheriffs Department, due to a scandal, and created what was then the Gaston Rural Police. Gaston County is only one of two counties of the 100 in NC that have a split sheriffs dept. and county police. Today, they are simply know as the county police which serve 190,000 county residents. County patrol unit call signs are based upon which region they serve ( 1 Adam 3 or 2 Baker 4 meaning they are an Adam team in the first zone or a Baker team in the 2 zone with the last digit identifying the particular unit). Sergeant units are David units. The county also has award winning ERT (SWAT), bomb teams, and K-9 units.
 
 

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Click the map to find out the commander of each district

This shows a county map with each of the county patrol zones. The municipal areas are grayed out as the county police do not typically answer calls in these areas even though they have jurisdiction. Click on the picture to see they commander of each of the zones.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Gastonia City Police

The City of Gastonia is the largest municipality in the Gaston County and the city police serve the City of Gastonia with about 70,000 residents. The city police consist of four patrol divisions: Adam, Baker, Charlie, and David. Call signs for patrol officers are Adam for units patrolling between 19:00 to 7:00 and Baker for units patrolling between 7:00 to 19:00. Seargents are L units (L21 or L19), detectives are zebra units, and off-duty officers are x-ray units. Gastonia Police also have award winning SWAT teams, Dive teams, Bomb teams, and hostage negotiator teams plus six K-9 teams. Many surrounding departments as well as military come to train with the city and county police and their special teams.

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Gaston Sheriffs Department

The Gaston Sheriffs Dept. is the primary service that serves warrants, maintains and guards the jail, serves as bailiffs of the court, and other constitutionally appointed duties by the state of NC.

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