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Table 6
Hirings and departures of police officers, by overall years of service, Canada, 2012/2013

Table 6
Hirings and departures of police officers, by overall years of service, Canada, 2012/2013
Table summary
This table displays the results of Hirings and departures of police officers. The information is grouped by Overall years of service (appearing as row headers), Hirings, Departures, Police officers eligible to retire, Total, Total police officers, Retirements and Other, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Overall years of service	Hirings^Note 1		Departures^Note 2			Police officers eligible to retire^Note 5
	Total	Total police officers^Note 3	Total	Retirements	Other^Note 4	Police officers eligible to retire^Note 5
	number	percent	number	percent
Less than 5 years	1,792	85.5	216	0.1	32.1	0.1
5 to less than 10 years	111	5.3	145	0.4	20.7	0.1
10 to less than 15 years	76	3.6	82	0.4	11.3	0.1
15 to less than 20 years	33	1.6	71	0.8	8.8	0.2
20 to less than 25 years	31	1.5	156	5.9	10.1	10.5
25 to less than 30 years	21	1.0	369	21.1	8.5	45.0
30 to less than 35 years	19	0.9	725	46.0	6.4	34.5
35 years and over	12	0.6	388	25.3	1.9	9.4
Information not available	7	...	22	...	...	...
Total	2,102	100.0	2,174	100.0	100.0	100.0
... not applicable Note 1. Information on hirings was not available for police services employing 0.2% of officers across Canada. These police services are excluded from the percentage calculations. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. Information on reason for departure was not available for police services employing 0.2% of officers across Canada. These police services are excluded from the percentage calculations. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3. Includes both experienced police officers and recruit graduates in order to include police services (employing 35% of officers in Canada) which were unable to distinguish between these levels of experience of their officers at time of hire. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4. Includes police officers who departed for reasons other than retirement, such as being hired by another police service, career change, death, etc. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5. Information on eligibility to retire was not available for police services employing 0.2% of police officers across Canada. These police services are excluded from the percentage calculations. Return to note 5 referrer Note: Represents hirings, departures and eligibility to retire during the 2012 calendar or 2012/2013 fiscal year. Percentages calculated excluding information not available. Totals may not add up to 100% due to rounding. Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Police Administration Survey and Supplemental Survey.

Date modified:: 2015-11-30