Wadena County Sheriff's Office

Wadena County Sheriff's Office runs the county's enhanced 911 answering point and the dispatch center for all emergency services, alongside patrol, criminal investigations, civil process and bailiff duties in Wadena County, Minnesota. The communications center works with the county's fire and rescue squads, the Tri-County ambulance service, area police agencies and neighboring answering points over a radio network with tower sites in Menahga, Sebeka, Verndale and Wadena. Deputies also patrol on boats, ATVs and snowmobiles, a K-9 unit tracks missing people, drugs and suspects, and the office takes part in the West Central Drug Task Force and keeps a SWAT team and an emergency manager. Investigators handle arson, burglary, child abuse, crimes against vulnerable adults, death cases, fraud, robbery and welfare fraud, track predatory offenders and belong to the Internet Crimes Against Children task force. The licensed detention facility holds inmates on Sentence to Serve and work release along with minimum through maximum custody inmates, a public health nurse visits three times a week, and the jail takes part in the VINE notification service. Under the fee schedule effective Oct. 7, 2025, paper service costs $75, and a notice of intent to redeem under Minn. Stat. sec. 580.24 costs $100.