Rapid City Donates Squad Cars to Oglala Lakota County

HOT SPRINGS, S.D. (AP) — The Oglala Lakota County Sheriff's Department has doubled its fleet of squad cars thanks to a donation from the Rapid City Police Department.

The Rapid City Council voted unanimously Jan. 18 to give two vehicles that were headed for retirement to Oglala Lakota County. The Rapid City Journal reports that the city also is donating the equipment that came with the cars, including the light bars on their roofs, the partitions and center consoles, and the radar units.

Before the donation, the sheriff's department had only two patrol vehicles, both of which have logged more than 100,000 miles.

Oglala Lakota County Sheriff Rex Conroy, the department's only full-time law officer, picked up the new vehicles on Jan. 22 in Rapid City.