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Table 80

SOUTH DAKOTA

Full-time Law Enforcement Employees

by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2018

Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan County Total law
enforcement
employees
Total
officers
Total
civilians
Metropolitan Counties Lincoln 21 19 2
McCook 9 8 1
Meade 50 18 32
Minnehaha 213 96 117
Pennington 406 98 308
Turner 10 8 2
Union 28 8 20
Nonmetropolitan Counties Aurora 4 3 1
Beadle 23 5 18
Bennett 4 3 1
Bon Homme 8 3 5
Brookings 24 15 9
Brown 60 19 41
Brule 11 4 7
Buffalo 1 1 0
Butte 7 5 2
Campbell 3 3 0
Charles Mix 20 6 14
Clark 3 3 0
Clay 13 8 5
Codington 28 9 19
Corson 5 4 1
Custer 12 11 1
Davison 10 7 3
Day 5 3 2
Deuel 6 5 1
Dewey 3 3 0
Douglas 4 4 0
Edmunds 9 4 5
Fall River 17 6 11
Faulk 15 4 11
Grant 11 4 7
Gregory 5 4 1
Haakon 2 2 0
Hamlin 4 4 0
Hand 4 2 2
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 1 1 0
Kingsbury 6 5 1
Lake 18 8 10
Lawrence 38 15 23
Lyman 5 4 1
Marshall 12 6 6
McPherson 4 4 0
Miner 4 3 1
Moody 10 5 5
Oglala Lakota 1 1 0
Perkins 8 7 1
Potter 3 2 1
Roberts 29 5 24
Sanborn 3 2 1
Spink 12 7 5
Stanley 6 5 1
Sully 3 3 0
Tripp 6 3 3
Walworth 16 3 13
Yankton 35 12 23
Ziebach 3 3 0

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