Table 28
SOUTH DAKOTA
Full-time Law Enforcement Employees
by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2016
| Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan | County |
Total law enforcement employees |
Total officers |
Total civilians |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Counties | Custer | 12 | 11 | 1 |
| Lincoln | 20 | 18 | 2 | |
| McCook | 8 | 7 | 1 | |
| Meade | 45 | 18 | 27 | |
| Minnehaha | 207 | 72 | 135 | |
| Pennington | 384 | 94 | 290 | |
| Turner | 10 | 8 | 2 | |
| Union | 28 | 8 | 20 | |
| Nonmetropolitan Counties | Aurora | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Beadle | 25 | 5 | 20 | |
| Bennett | 5 | 3 | 2 | |
| Bon Homme | 8 | 3 | 5 | |
| Brookings | 22 | 14 | 8 | |
| Brown | 59 | 16 | 43 | |
| Brule | 10 | 4 | 6 | |
| Buffalo | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Butte | 14 | 5 | 9 | |
| Campbell | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| Charles Mix | 20 | 6 | 14 | |
| Clark | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
| Clay | 14 | 8 | 6 | |
| Codington | 28 | 10 | 18 | |
| Corson | 4 | 4 | 0 | |
| Davison | 10 | 7 | 3 | |
| Day | 5 | 3 | 2 | |
| Deuel | 6 | 5 | 1 | |
| Dewey | 4 | 3 | 1 | |
| Douglas | 4 | 4 | 0 | |
| Edmunds | 4 | 4 | 0 | |
| Fall River | 8 | 6 | 2 | |
| Faulk | 11 | 4 | 7 | |
| Grant | 8 | 4 | 4 | |
| Gregory | 4 | 3 | 1 | |
| Hamlin | 6 | 5 | 1 | |
| Hand | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Hanson | 4 | 3 | 1 | |
| Harding | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Hughes | 48 | 6 | 42 | |
| Hutchinson | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
| Hyde | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| Jackson | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Jerauld | 5 | 4 | 1 | |
| Jones | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| Kingsbury | 6 | 5 | 1 | |
| Lake | 13 | 7 | 6 | |
| Lawrence | 37 | 13 | 24 | |
| Lyman | 5 | 4 | 1 | |
| Marshall | 11 | 6 | 5 | |
| McPherson | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
| Mellette | 5 | 4 | 1 | |
| Miner | 4 | 3 | 1 | |
| Moody | 8 | 3 | 5 | |
| Perkins | 7 | 6 | 1 | |
| Potter | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Roberts | 34 | 5 | 29 | |
| Sanborn | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
| Spink | 13 | 8 | 5 | |
| Stanley | 6 | 5 | 1 | |
| Sully | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
| Todd | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Tripp | 4 | 3 | 1 | |
| Walworth | 13 | 5 | 8 | |
| Yankton | 32 | 12 | 20 | |
| Ziebach | 2 | 2 | 0 |
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