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Table 80

SOUTH DAKOTA

Full-time Law Enforcement Employees

by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2019

Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan County Total law
enforcement
employees
Total
officers
Total
civilians
Metropolitan Counties Lincoln 24 20 4
McCook 9 8 1
Meade 50 18 32
Minnehaha 233 95 138
Pennington 421 101 320
Turner 10 8 2
Union 28 18 10
Nonmetropolitan Counties Aurora 4 3 1
Beadle 26 5 21
Bennett 4 3 1
Bon Homme 3 3 0
Brookings 25 15 10
Brown 62 20 42
Buffalo 1 1 0
Butte 16 5 11
Campbell 2 2 0
Charles Mix 22 7 15
Clark 3 3 0
Clay 15 8 7
Codington 13 10 3
Corson 4 4 0
Custer 13 12 1
Davison 9 7 2
Day 9 4 5
Deuel 6 5 1
Dewey 3 3 0
Douglas 4 4 0
Edmunds 4 4 0
Fall River 19 7 12
Faulk 17 5 12
Grant 9 5 4
Gregory 5 4 1
Haakon 2 2 0
Hamlin 6 6 0
Hand 4 3 1
Hanson 3 3 0
Harding 3 2 1
Hughes 58 6 52
Hutchinson 3 3 0
Hyde 1 1 0
Jackson 3 2 1
Jerauld 4 4 0
Jones 2 2 0
Kingsbury 6 5 1
Lake 15 8 7
Lawrence 40 17 23
Lyman 5 4 1
Marshall 11 6 5
McPherson 4 4 0
Mellette 4 4 0
Miner 4 3 1
Moody 10 6 4
Oglala Lakota 1 1 0
Perkins 8 7 1
Potter 3 2 1
Roberts 35 6 29
Sanborn 3 3 0
Spink 14 9 5
Stanley 6 5 1
Sully 3 3 0
Tripp 3 2 1
Walworth 13 4 9
Yankton 35 12 23
Ziebach 3 3 0

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