Ottawa County Detention Center building is part of the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office building located in Minneapolis, Kansas approximately twenty-three miles north of Salina, Kansas just off US 81 Highway.  We opened our new facility in December of 1996 right behind the Ottawa County Courthouse.  We are a 60 bed facility and house contract inmates as well as inmates from our own county.

Ottawa County 911 Communications is located in the Detention Center/Sheriff's Office Building. The 911 Communications Center dispatchs for the City Of Minneapolis Police Department, the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office, Delphos Police Department, Minneapolis and Bennington EMS, and the 11 Fire Districts in Ottawa County including the 6 main Fire Dirsticts (Ada, Minneapolis, Delphos, Tescott, Culver, and Bennington). The other 5 Districts are outside counties assigned to parts of Ottawa County (Saline Dist. #5, Mitchell RFD #1, Glasco, Miltonvale, and Longford).