The Separate Insurance Benefits Plan provides certain temporary disability benefits and a death benefit to eligible law enforcement officers. 

Eligible LEOs must enroll in the Plan. 

A law enforcement officer is automatically an eligible participant in the Separate Insurance Benefits Plan if the officer is:

• a full-time law enforcement officer of the state or any of its political subdivisions, as defined in Chapter 135 of the North Carolina General Statutes, and has the full power of arrest with the primary duty of preventing and detecting crime, enforcing criminal laws on public property or serving civil processes. 
   
• a former law enforcement officer as defined above and (a) had 20 or more years of service as an officer or (b) is in receipt of a disability retirement allowance from any state-administered retirement system.