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Table 80

SOUTH DAKOTA

Full-time Law Enforcement Employees

by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2017

Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan County Total law
enforcement
employees
Total
officers
Total
civilians
Metropolitan Counties Custer 12 10 2
Lincoln 20 18 2
McCook 8 7 1
Meade 40 18 22
Minnehaha 195 96 99
Pennington 379 97 282
Turner 10 8 2
Union 26 17 9
Nonmetropolitan Counties Aurora 4 3 1
Beadle 22 5 17
Bennett 4 3 1
Bon Homme 8 3 5
Brookings 23 14 9
Brown 67 18 49
Brule 10 8 2
Buffalo 1 1 0
Butte 13 5 8
Campbell 3 3 0
Charles Mix 21 7 14
Clark 3 3 0
Clay 14 8 6
Codington 29 10 19
Corson 4 4 0
Davison 9 7 2
Day 5 3 2
Deuel 6 5 1
Dewey 3 3 0
Douglas 4 4 0
Fall River 13 6 7
Faulk 13 4 9
Grant 9 4 5
Gregory 5 4 1
Haakon 2 2 0
Hamlin 9 4 5
Hand 2 1 1
Hanson 3 3 0
Harding 3 2 1
Hughes 48 6 42
Hutchinson 3 3 0
Hyde 2 2 0
Jackson 3 2 1
Jerauld 4 4 0
Jones 2 2 0
Kingsbury 6 5 1
Lake 18 6 12
Lawrence 38 15 23
Lyman 5 4 1
Marshall 10 6 4
McPherson 3 3 0
Miner 4 3 1
Moody 10 5 5
Oglala Lakota 1 1 0
Perkins 8 7 1
Potter 3 2 1
Roberts 30 5 25
Sanborn 3 3 0
Spink 14 9 5
Stanley 6 5 1
Sully 3 3 0
Todd 2 1 1
Tripp 3 3 0
Walworth 6 6 0
Yankton 32 12 20
Ziebach 2 2 0

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