How many sworn law enforcement officers (local, county, state, tribal) were employed in Minnesota in 2025–2026, by agency?
Executive summary
A complete, line‑by‑line accounting of every sworn law‑enforcement officer in Minnesota by agency for 2025–2026 cannot be produced from the fragments of reporting provided here, but the state has contemporaneous agency-level headcount documents and public agency statements that together would allow assembly of that breakdown; key examples include a 2025 “Number of Officers by Agency” file published by the Minnesota Post (state-hosted PDF) and municipal releases such as Minneapolis’s sworn personnel updates [1] [2] [3]. Available public reports establish the scale: Minneapolis had nearly 600 sworn officers in 2025 (with a funded ceiling of 731), tribal and special jurisdictions report very small rosters (for example the 1854 Treaty Authority shows 3 officers in the 2025 list), and higher‑level aggregates and rate estimates appear in national compilations [4] [1] [5].
1. What the user is actually asking, and what the sources can deliver
The requester seeks a by‑agency tally of sworn officers (local, county, state, tribal) in Minnesota for 2025–2026; the documents cited include a published “Agency Information by Type and Size 2025” and a separate “Number of Officers 2025” table intended precisely to enumerate officers per agency, but the search results here present only snippets and selected agency examples rather than a full parsed table—meaning the source materials exist to answer the question rigorously, but the excerpted reporting provided does not permit reproduction of an exhaustive by‑agency list within this analysis [2] [1].
2. What can be stated with confidence from the available reporting
Minneapolis reported “nearly 600” sworn officers in 2025 and had hired 101 sworn hires that year; the City documents also note the department’s budgeted capacity to employ up to 731 sworn officers and continued recruiting to reach legally required staffing levels [3] [4] [6]. At the other end of the spectrum, specialized tribal or treaty enforcement units show single‑digit sworn rosters in the state‑compiled list—for example the 1854 Treaty Authority Enforcement Division is recorded with 3 officers in the 2025 compilation [1]. National compilations and summaries provide contextual rates: a 2026 online state ranking lists Minnesota at about 317 police officers per 100,000 residents, a different metric than per‑agency counts but useful for statewide scale [5].
3. Aggregate context and federal presences that complicate comparisons
Reporting highlights that federal deployments—ICE and CBP agents tied to DHS actions—have been discussed publicly in numbers reaching into the low thousands (reports reference figures of roughly 2,000 already deployed and planning figures up to about 3,000), and those federal agent counts are often compared to local municipal and county sworn totals; such federal personnel are not part of the state/local/county/tribal sworn headcounts sought here but materially affect public perception of overall law‑enforcement presence in Minnesota [7] [8].
4. Why a definitive by‑agency list is possible but not reproducible here
The Minnesota Post/state website published explicit PDFs titled “Agency Information by Type and Size 2025” and “Number of Officers 2025 – Number of Officers by Agency,” which appear to list agencies and their sworn counts and therefore are the primary sources for a definitive by‑agency enumeration; however, the reporting supplied in the search results includes only snippets and selective examples rather than the full table content, so an authoritative, itemized list cannot be reconstructed solely from the snippets available in this dossier [2] [1].
5. Practical next steps to obtain the full by‑agency breakdown
To produce the exact by‑agency totals for 2025–2026 one should retrieve and parse the full “Number of Officers by Agency” PDF (the Minnesota Post/state-hosted asset referenced) and cross‑check agency self‑reports (city or sheriff press releases and municipal budgeting documents such as Minneapolis’s sworn personnel releases) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics or LEMAS datasets for state agency totals; those documents together will permit assembly of the requested comprehensive table [1] [3] [9].