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  • 21. Sexual assault incidents in Canada: From the police to criminal courts
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024051
    Description: This infographic provides information on how incidents of sexual assault proceed through the criminal justice system, from police to courts.
    Release date: 2024-11-06
  • 22. Police-reported crime in Canada, 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024030
    Description: Key statistics about crime in Canada are presented in this infographic. Findings on changes to the Crime Severity Index (CSI) at the national and provincial, territorial levels are presented. Also included are the categories of crime which were reported in 2023.
    Release date: 2024-07-25
  • 23. Police personnel and expenditures in Canada, 2023 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024004
    Description: This infographic is a visual representation using some of the data from the 2023 Police Administration Survey. Findings reported on the infographic include results on key indicators such as police strength, number of police officers, number of calls for service and police personnel data.
    Release date: 2024-03-26
  • 24. Police resources in Canada 2023 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20240867421
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-03-26
  • 25. Police services expenditures, by detailed expenditures
    Table: 35-10-0059-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Salaries, wages, benefits (of police officers, civilian personnel, special constables, and recruits), non-salary operating expenditures (vehicle operating and maintenance, building operating and maintenance, training and professional development, information technology operations, police equipment, contracts for professional services) and capital expenditures (vehicle purchases, new building and capital projects, information technology operations, police equipment) of police services, 2018 to 2023.
    Release date: 2024-03-26
  • 26. Police personnel and selected crime statistics
    Table: 35-10-0076-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Data on police personnel (police officers by gender, civilian and other personnel), police-civilian ratio, police officers and authorized strength per 100,000 population, authorized police officer strength and selected crime statistics. Data is provided for Canada, provinces, territories and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) headquarters, training academy depot division and forensic labs, 1986 to 2023.
    Release date: 2024-03-26
  • 27. Police personnel and selected crime statistics, municipal police services
    Table: 35-10-0077-01
    Geography: Policing district/zone
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Data on police personnel (police officers by gender, civilian and other personnel), police officers and authorized strength per 100,000 population, authorized police officer strength, population, net gain or loss from hirings and departures, police officers eligible to retire and selected crime statistics. Data is provided for municipal police services, 2000 to 2023.
    Release date: 2024-03-26
  • 28. Police personnel by detailed rank, duties and gender
    Table: 35-10-0078-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Data on police officers (by detailed ranks and gender), civilian personnel and special constables (by detailed duties and gender), and recruits (by gender). Data is provided for Canada, provinces, territories and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) headquarters, training academy depot division and forensic labs, 1986 to 2023.
    Release date: 2024-03-26
  • 29. Police personnel by gender, municipal police services
    Table: 35-10-0079-01
    Geography: Policing district/zone
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Data on police officers (by high level ranks and gender), total number of civilian personnel, special constables and recruits (each by gender). The proportion of total police, civilians, special constables and recruits from total personnel, and also the proportion of high level ranks from total number of police officers. Data is provided for municipal police services, 2000 to 2023.
    Release date: 2024-03-26
  • 30. Infographic: Police-reported hate crime in Canada, 2022 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024006
    Description: Using police-reported data from the 2022 Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey, this infographic is a visual representation of some of these data. Findings include results at the national, provincial, and territorial levels. Also included are findings related to the type and motivation of hate crimes committed in Canada, as well as the most serious violations reported in each incident.
    Release date: 2024-03-13
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Data (23) (20 to 30 of 23 results)

  • 21. Number of police officers Archived
    Table: 35-10-0135-01
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: This table contains 31 series, with data for years 1974 - 2001 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and is no longer being released. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (15 items: Canada;Newfoundland and Labrador;Prince Edward Island;Nova Scotia; ...); Police officers (3 items: Total number of police officers;Population per police officer;Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters).
    Release date: 2008-06-26
  • 22. General Social Survey Cycle 13. Overview: Personal Safety and Perceptions of Policing Archived
    Table: 85-554-X
    Geography: Census metropolitan area
    Description:

    This report presents a brief overview of the information collected in Cycle 13 of the General Social Survey (GSS). Cycle 13 is the third cycle (following cycles 3 and 8) that collected information in 1999 on the nature and extent of criminal victimisation in Canada. Focus content for cycle 13 addressed two areas of emerging interest: public perception toward alternatives to imprisonment; and spousal violence and senior abuse. Other subjects common to all three cycles include perceptions of crime, police and courts; crime prevention precautions; accident and crime screening sections; and accident and crime incident reports. The target population of the GSS is all individuals aged 15 and over living in a private household in one of the ten provinces

    Release date: 2001-08-08
  • 23. Crime and Police Resources in Canadian Municipalities Archived
    Table: 85-223-X
    Description:

    This report presents summary crime statistics as well as police personnel and expenditures for all municipal police departments in Canada. The report is organized by province and by city-size within province. Data include violent and property crime rates, clearance rates, population per officer and per capita costs.

    Release date: 1998-12-21
Analysis (61)

Analysis (61) (0 to 10 of 61 results)

  • 1. Recontact with police among child and youth victims of violent crime, 2010 to 2024
    Articles and reports: 85-002-X202600100006
    Description: This Juristat article uses data from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey to identify a cohort of unique child and youth (aged 0 to 17) victims of violent crime in 2010. It then follows their subsequent contact with police as victims of violent crime and persons accused of violent, property, or other types of crime through to the end of 2024.
    Release date: 2026-04-29
  • 2. Infographic: Police-reported hate crime in Canada, 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2026005
    Description: Using police-reported data from the 2024 Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey, this infographic is a visual representation of some of these data. Findings include results at the national, provincial, and territorial levels. Also included are findings related to the type and motivation of hate crimes committed in Canada, as well as the most serious violations reported in each incident.
    Release date: 2026-03-30
  • 3. Accused persons living in rural areas and their subsequent contacts with police, 2014 to 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025055
    Description: Using police-reported data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, this infographic presents data on subsequent contacts with police over a nine-year period for individuals living in rural areas of the Canadian provinces who were accused of a crime in 2014.
    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 4. Patterns of re-offending among accused persons living in rural areas of the Canadian provinces, 2014 to 2023
    Articles and reports: 85-002-X202500100007
    Description: This Juristat article uses police-reported data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey to examine re-offending patterns among accused persons living in rural areas of the provinces who came into contact with police in 2014. This analysis examines several key dimensions related to re-contact with police, including the prevalence of re-contact, frequency of re-contact, time to re-contact and nature of re-contact over a nine-year reference period.
    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 5. Re-contact with police among accused persons living in rural areas of the Canadian provinces 2014 to 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202534340167
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 6. Trends in police-reported crime in Canada and the United States: A comparative analysis
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X202500100011
    Description: This comparative analysis of crime trends in Canada and United States uses police-reported data from the Uniform Crime Reporting programs in both countries, focusing on trends from 1998 to 2023. In doing so, this study provides a better understanding of the similarities and differences in patterns in police-reported crime for the two neighbouring countries over time, as well as insight into the characteristics of crimes in Canada and the United States (e.g., use of firearms in violent crime).
    Release date: 2025-10-08
  • 7. Regional variations in police-reported crime: Comparing Canada and the United States
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X202500100012
    Description: Using data from the Uniform Crime Reporting programs in Canada and the United States, this study examines the prevalence of police-reported crime for specific regions within each country and how these patterns may vary between the two countries. Besides examining broader geographic regions, it also compares police-reported crime at more specific levels of geography, namely between urban and rural areas, as well as across the largest metropolitan areas.
    Release date: 2025-10-08
  • 8. Police-reported crime in Canada, 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025041
    Description: Key statistics about crime in Canada are presented in this infographic. Findings on changes to the Crime Severity Index (CSI) at the national and provincial, territorial levels are presented. Also included are the categories of crime which were reported in 2024.
    Release date: 2025-07-22
  • 9. Framework for the Use, Analysis, Interpretation and Dissemination of Police-reported Indigenous and Racialized Identity Data Through the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey
    Articles and reports: 11-633-X2025002
    Description: This report presents an Analytical Framework for police-reported Indigenous and racialized identity data on accused persons and victims involved in criminal incidents, collected through the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. This framework has two main objectives: (1) support the responsible and ethical use of PIRID by proposing a set of guiding principles, which are intended to help avoid further stigmatizing and marginalizing communities through the use of these data; and (2) equip data users with tools and guidance for careful and culturally competent data interpretation, ultimately contributing to the development of evidence to support decision making for the creation of more equitable outcomes in policing.
    Release date: 2025-07-16
  • 10. Characteristics of police-reported crime in rural areas, 2023: Provincial fact sheets
    Articles and reports: 85-002-X202500100006
    Description: The rural crime fact sheets use data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey to examine the nature and extent of police-reported crime in rural areas of each province, making comparisons with urban areas. Where applicable, rural and urban areas are further disaggregated by northern and southern region. The analysis focuses on types of crime reported by police, as well as victim and accused characteristics.
    Release date: 2025-06-10
Reference (2)

Reference (2) ((2 results))

  • 1. Police Administration Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3301
    Description: The purpose of the Police Administration Survey (PAS) is to collect statistics on public policing personnel and expenditures from municipal, provincial and federal police services in Canada. The information collected is used by federal and provincial policy makers, individual police services as well as officials responsible for police budgets. The data are also used by the media for the purpose of providing information to the general public.
  • 2. RCMP Public Complaints Commission (PCC) Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4412
    Description: The purpose of this survey is to assess the experiences of individuals who have lodged complaints against the RCMP and individuals who were involved in a complaint review.

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