The Tri-City Police Force consists of one full time police chief and five part time officers. The Chief of Police is hired by the City of Minnesota Lake, who directs scheduling of the part-time officers for the three towns, and is responsible to see that Minnesota Lake has fulltime coverage. The part time officers are Todd Hanevik, Mike Stevermer, Steve Linde, and Terry Campbell.

To contact Scott Adams or the policeman who is on duty, call 507-462-3555. The following numbers can also be used in order to contact any of the officers:
Non-emergency: 507-526-5148
Emergency: 911

In the summer of 2002 a new ambulance was purchased. This purchase was necessary to better serve the people of the Minnesota Lake Area. The City of Minnesota Lake, over the past nine years, had reserved $33,000 toward this purchase. The Minnesota Lake Fire Department Relief Association donated $20,000; The Minnesota Lake Ambulance service donated $26,125; and the Wells VFW, Minnesota Lake Legion, and Heather Curling Club donated a total of $3,500.

Minnesota Lake Ambulance has sixteen individuals dedicated to serving the community. Captain:  Edie More leads our team with Co-Captain:  Chris Boertje and secretary Dee Stencel.

We provide care that is Basic Life Support (BLS), but we have gained additional training to use a defibrillator for heart attacks, administering glucose and epinephrine through shots for emergency purposes, use of a nebulizer for respitory emergencies and to give nitro for angina and heart emergencies with the help of our Medical Director. For our primary service area we average around sixty-sixty-five calls a year. We provide our services to the Mapleton Community Home also. As a dedicated team we meet monthly. All of our EMT's must keep their training current by attending classes throughout the year. Some of our community efforts include working with the Maple River Pool Staff once a year to train for water safety and emergency water care. We attend health conferences in our community and surrounding communities, teaching students basic first aid. Minnesota Lake Ambulance has a CPR Instructor as a member, Raleen Tolzmann, to keep us all trained in that area, and to provide CPR classes to people in our communities. Once a year with the help and support from the people of Minnesota Lake we hold a Soup and Pie Supper, to raise funds for our squad. At the supper we open the doors of our ambulance for anyone to walk through and see. We also offer free literature and blood pressure reading to anyone interested. Region Nine also partnerships with the Minnesota Lake Ambulance, and give us administration support, materials, education, and financial support in the form of grants. We serve our community and our community supports us. With being a small rural community we encourage anyone interested to participate by becoming members. We always can use the help. We have incentives like paid daycare while on a call, and a small bonus for the time that you spend volunteering for the ambulance while being on call.