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This weekend will be the first since September that the Missoula County Sheriff's Office isn't beamed into living rooms across the country on Live PD.

The Missoula County Sheriff's Office announced in a Facebook post on Jan. 18 it will be taking a break from the show as part of the rotation of participating police departments. The live ride-along show features several departments at once on Friday and Saturday nights from different corners of the country.

"They really enjoyed the process and they saw it as an opportunity to humanize the badge, if you will, and show some of the things they run into as law enforcement officers," sheriff's office spokesperson Brenda Bassett said Friday. "Being able to capture that was really great for us and for Missoula County and I think the viewers both locally and nationwide really enjoyed seeing this side of law enforcement and more so the Montana element."

Friday and Saturday nights in Missoula County got viewers on board with deputies and detectives working with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks on wildlife calls, search and rescue teams plunging into the woods and, naturally, residents in need of help.