That's in your neck of the country, isn't it?
Yes, I live in Union County, just to the east of Charlotte. Charlotte tries to act as if they’ve subsumed Mecklenburg County, but a number of the cities run their own police departments, so I don’t know why the Charlotte police are so encroaching.
Here, we have the Union County Sheriff’s Department, which covers all the areas that don’t have separate police. Monroe (the county seat), Wingate, Waxhaw, and Stallings have their own police departments, but my town, Indian Trail, rents officers from the County. Fine bunch of people - some subdivisions in my area recently held an appreciation event for the Sheriff’s Department, with gift bags for each of the officers, and even gifts arranged by PetSmart for the dogs.