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  • Articles and reports: 85-002-X201400111914
    Geography: Province or territory, Census metropolitan area
    Description:

    This article examines trends in police personnel (including selected demographic characteristics) and expenditures on policing (a component of justice system spending) for Canada, the provinces and territories, and census metropolitan areas. Information on officers per population is presented for each of the national, provincial, and census metropolitan area levels. Additionally, other statistics, including hirings and departures, eligibility to retire, and expenditures are presented for the provincial and national levels. Finally, selected personnel data are presented at the national level, including rank, gender, age group, and years of service of police officers.

    The information contained in this report provides an overview of the Canadian policing community and how it continues to change over time. Findings are primarily based on data from the Police Administration Survey. To provide a more complete picture of the state of policing in Canada, the following contextual information are included: policing responsibilities and strategies within the economics of policing discussions; international data on police personnel and gender from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and wage information from Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey (LFS).

    Release date: 2014-03-27

  • Table: 85-225-X
    Description: This report examines trends in police personnel (including selected demographic characteristics) and expenditures on policing (a component of justice system spending) for Canada, the provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and municipal police services. Findings are based on data from the Police Administration Survey. Selected data are presented at the national and provincial levels, including rank, gender, age group and years of service of police officers. Other crime and personnel statistics, including officers per population, hirings and departures and Crime Severity Index values are presented for census metropolitan areas and for all municipal police services in Canada. The information contained in this report provides an overview of the Canadian policing community and how it continues to change over time.
    Release date: 2013-03-20

  • Table: 35-10-0136-01
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: This table contains 96 series, with data for years 1986 - 2009 (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 (16 items: Canada;Newfoundland and Labrador;Prince Edward Island;Nova Scotia; ...); Sex (3 items: Both sexes;Males;Females); Statistics (2 items: Total number of police officers;Percentage of total police officers).
    Release date: 2010-12-15

  • Articles and reports: 85-002-X201000311354
    Geography: Province or territory
    Description:

    This Juristat article presents information on homicides against police officers in Canada. Specific issues include the incidence and geographical location of this type of offence, the most common types of situations when officers are killed and the type of weapon used.

    Release date: 2010-10-26

  • Articles and reports: 85-002-X200900110782
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    The purpose of this paper is to provide a demographic portrait of justice-related occupations and their evolution between 1991 and 2006. Four groups are analysed in more detail: police officers, private security officers, court workers and correctional service officers. Most of the data analysed are from the 1991, 1996, 2001 and 2006 censuses of population, and some complementary information from other sources is also used. The evolution of the age structure of these groups is analyzed and compared to the age structure of all Canadian workers. Questions related to the aging and renewal of the workforce are also addressed.

    Release date: 2009-03-12

  • Articles and reports: 85-002-X200801010730
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This Juristat presents a socio-demographic profile of police officers and individuals working in private security occupations. Using the Census of Population and Housing from 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2006 as the primary data sources, employment figures for those working in private security and public policing occupations are provided. Other characteristics of these occupational groups such as gender, age, education, visible minority and Aboriginal status as well as income are also included. The traditional and emerging roles of public police and private security personnel, as well as the systems of governance under which each operates are also discussed.

    Release date: 2008-12-15

  • 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

  • Articles and reports: 85-002-X20040078406
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This Juristat presents a sociodemographic profile of police officers and individuals working in private security occupations. Employment figures for those working in private security and public policing occupations are provided from the Census of Population and Housing from 1991, 1996 and 2001.

    Release date: 2004-08-10

  • Articles and reports: 85-553-X19990015811
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Using the results of the 1999 GSS on Victimization, this chapter will look at the issue of reporting to police in more detail.

    Release date: 2001-08-08

  • 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
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  • Table: 35-10-0153-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Police-reported cybercrime, by cyber-related violation, number of incidents and year to date total, preliminary quarterly data, Canada and regions (Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Prairies, British Columbia and Territories), Q1 (January to March) 2024 to Q4 (October to December) 2025.
    Release date: 2026-04-16

  • Data Visualization: 71-607-X2023026
    Description: This interactive data visualization dashboard provides an overview of police-reported crime in Canada. The dashboard features statistics on the crime rate, Crime Severity Index and for key violations on an annual basis and over the last 10 years. Information is available at different levels of geography including by Canada, province and territory and census metropolitan area.
    Release date: 2025-07-29

  • Data Visualization: 71-607-X2023027
    Description: This interactive data visualization dashboard provides a focus on police-reported violations in Canada. Users can select for one or more violations or violation groups to view statistics over the last 10 years and at different geographies. This dashboard provides the number of incidents, rate, and year-over-year percentage change in rate for each violation, as well as incident clearance information. It also provides a comparison between each province and territory and each census metropolitan area for the selected violation(s).
    Release date: 2025-07-29

  • Data Visualization: 71-607-X2023028
    Description: This interactive data visualization dashboard allows users to compare high-level police-reported information across different geographies, including for Canada, by province and territory and by census metropolitan area. Users can select for one or more geographies to view incident-level statistics or Crime Severity Index information over the last 10 years and as year-over-year percentage changes.
    Release date: 2025-07-29

  • Data Visualization: 71-607-X2025012
    Description: The Police-reported Information Geospatial Explorer allows users to visually explore data on topics, such as the Crime Severity Index, crime rate, hate crime, cybercrime, organized crime, and homicide. The data can be viewed at various levels of geography.
    Release date: 2025-07-29

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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
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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Stats in brief: 11-001-X202534340167
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-12-09

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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
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  • 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.

  • 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.