Public Service Occupations | AAS Programs: Law Enforcement

The North Carolina Sheriffs’ Education and Training Standards Commission and the Criminal Justice Education & Training Standards Commission regulate the training and certification of sheriffs’ deputies, law enforcement officers, corrections officers, and juvenile justice officers.

The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice is responsible for the care, custody and supervision of all adults and juveniles sentenced after conviction for violations of North Carolina law.

Dedicated to equipping criminal justice professionals with the right training and tools to affect lasting and meaningful change in the communities they serve.

The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, Public Law 93–415, as amended, established the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to support local and state efforts to prevent delinquency and improve the juvenile justice system.

In order to improve the quality and equity of investigative outcomes, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) has provided funding to the Police Foundation, who is collaborating with the Prosecutor’s Center for Excellence (PCE), the National Criminal Justice Training Center at Fox Valley Technical College (NCJTC/FVTC), the Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies (ASCIA), the National Forensics Academy/Law Enforcement Innovation Center, and a cadre of SMEs, to provide training and technical assistance to the departments of hard-hit neighborhoods.

The National Criminal Intelligence Resource Center (NCIRC) is funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). BJA's overall goals are to reduce and prevent crime, violence, and drug abuse and improve the functioning of the criminal justice system. To achieve these goals, BJA programs emphasize enhanced coordination and cooperation of local, state, and federal efforts. BJA encourages the development and implementation of comprehensive strategies, provides training and technical assistance, reduces the availability of illegal weapons and develops strategies to address violence in our communities, enhances the ability of criminal justice agencies to access and use new information technologies, and encourages and supports evaluation of the effectiveness of funded programs and dissemination of program results in order to reduce and prevent crime and violence.