Animal Control

The Animal Control Unit consists of six full-time Officers, one Animal Control Sergeant position and one Lieutenant. Hours of operation are from 7 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., seven days a week. The Animal Control Section provides quality enforcement pertaining to public safety and animal welfare. Our Animal Control officers are highly trained, experienced, and certified professionals.

Officers respond to a variety of citizen requests for service. Services include: leash law enforcement, regulating barking dogs, regulating vicious dogs, dog licensing, rabies control, bite quarantines, and dead animal removal. Animal Control also handles cruelty and neglect calls throughout the 72 square miles of the city. In 2010, two temporary full-time officers were hired to assist with the heavy call volume that the summer months bring. Those two officers handled over 1,500 calls in three months.

The Animal Control Section operates out of the Community Services Division of the Sioux Falls Police Department and our officers handled 14,179 calls for service and issued 247 citations and 332 warning tickets in 2010.