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Spearfish Police Department

City agency in Lawrence, South Dakota. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 1999.

ORI: SD0400300
Type: City
County: Lawrence
State: South Dakota
FBI reporting: Reporting since 1999-04-01
Location: 44.4890, -103.8603

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 14,229.

19Sworn officers

12Civilian staff

2.18Employees per 1,000 people

14,229Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	19	12	14,229	2.18
2024	19	12	13,657	2.27
2023	17	11	13,276	2.11
2022	19	12	12,517	2.48
2021	19	11	12,047	2.49
2020	21	11	11,902	2.69
2019	23	8	11,842	2.62
2018	22	10	11,763	2.72
2017	21	10	11,697	2.65
2016	21	10	11,429	2.71
2015	20	9	11,225	2.58
2014	20	9	11,246	2.58

Officer and civilian counts are full-time employees as filed by the agency in its annual return. A dash means the agency did not report that figure for that year — it does not mean zero.

Also policing Lawrence

Jurisdictions overlap. These agencies are also recorded against the same county, so a single address may be covered by more than one of them.

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Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record SD0400300. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.