The Bureau of Indian Affairs continues to maintain extra police officers on two reservations in North Dakota and South Dakota.

The BIA sent 25 officers to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, which straddles the North-South Dakota border, in response to high rates of crime. Another 20-25 officers were sent to the Pine Ridge Reservation after nearly half of the police force for the Oglala Sioux Tribe quit.

The "surges" were designed to be temporary but the BIA will maintain its presence, law enforcement director Pat Ragsdale said. Crime is reportedly down at Standing Rock.

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