The President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe says steps are being taken to insure the safety of the residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation. The Tribal Council met with Representatives of the BIA Friday to work out new ways to pay for the hiring of more police officers. And that leads off tonight's Top Six at SIX. The overstretched police force now numbers 100 less than the 160 officers once recommended by a BIA study as the number needed on the reservation. Ron Duke: "Our response rate is real low because we don't have the manpower. And public safety is always getting blamed for not responding to a call. It is not because we don't want to. We don't have the manpower. And until we do that's going to be the biggest issue we're faced with." The Bureau of Indian Affairs will be supplying police officers to the Pine Ridge Reservation while the search is underway for more officers. But Tribal President John Yellow Bird Steele says the tribal council will be supervising public safety on the reservation, not the BIA.