A "surge" in law enforcement on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation has resulted in 700 arrests since June, according to officials.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs started Operation Dakota Peacekeeper to target high rates of crime on the reservation, which lies along the North Dakota and South Dakota border. Twenty officers are now patrolling the 2.3 million-acre reservation, up from six that are usually on duty.

"We're going to always have problems. There's a lot of drinking, lot of drugs," Alvin Ducheneaux, a former police officer, told KELO.

Since the operation only lasts 90 days, the BIA hopes to work with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to develop community policing solutions.

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Law Enforcement Increase On Standing Rock (KELO 7/15)

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Operation Dakota Peacekeeper (BIA)

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