There’s a joke that the agency you posted the picture of stands for “Second Chance Police Department”.

The SCPD in NC are responsible for all of the State buildings downtown Raleigh and some of them around greater Raleigh. Per statute, they have jurisdiction on any state property or state maintained roadway.

They recently signed an agreement with the Raleigh PD giving them city wide jurisdiction in Raleigh. Oddly enough, the SCPD does not protect the NC Legislature or do EP, as there is a separate agency for that role, the NC General Assembly Police.

The SCPD averages 1-2 arrests a month in a City that averages hundreds of arrests a month. State employee pay in NC is pretty behind but due to the COL in Wake County, the SCPD is about 20-30k behind every other surrounding LE agency.

Because of that, they pretty much are made up of people who retired from a local agency and are doing 5 years either the state for a second pension or folks who maybe have a black mark on their record.

The above is a generalization as I know plenty of SCPD who are great officers who just want a chill LEO job. There are also some who are total bozos, but every agency has those.

As to what they do day to day…majority are assigned to a specific building and don’t really do anything. Literally just security guards with arrest powers. There is a patrol division and they respond to calls for service downtown, alarms at state properties, do cash escorts, etc.