The Virginia Times

SEPTEMBER 8, 2026
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS · 1788
CIVIC SERVICES REGISTER

City of Franklin Sheriff Non-Emergency Number

The sheriff's non-emergency number for City of Franklin, Virginia: City of Franklin has no sheriff. The covering authority is named below with its verified line.

If this is an emergency, dial 9-1-1. The line below is a non-emergency business line.
No sheriff’s office exists for this jurisdiction. Virginia seats this function elsewhere. Under the register’s inheritance rule the covering authority is recorded by name rather than a substitute invented for the county model.

Covering authority

Southampton County Sheriff's Office. Confirmed on the Sheriff's own site https://www.shso.org/ (class 1), which states: "We will strive at all times to provide peace and security to all residents of Southampton County and the City of Franklin." NOTE: this record is for Franklin CITY, FIPS 51620, an independent city in Hampton Roads belonging to no county - it is NOT Franklin County, FIPS 51067, some two hundred miles west.

non-emergency757-653-2100
Agency as published: Southampton County Sheriff's Office - non-emergency line (Franklin CITY has no sheriff of its own; the city runs its own police department)
Address as published: 26022 Administration Center Dr., Courtland, VA 23837
Official domain: https://www.shso.org
Source class: Second class — official government portal or directory
Source: https://www.southamptoncounty.org/departments/sheriff_office/index.php
Verified: 2026-08-23
Independent re-verification: No such office exists

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