Table 9
Female police officers as a percentage of total police officers, by peer country, 2004 to 2011

Table 9
Female police officers as a percentage of total police officers, by peer country, 2004 to 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of Female police officers as a percentage of total police officers. The information is grouped by Peer country (appearing as row headers), 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Peer countryNote 1 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
percent
United KingdomNote 2 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Norway Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 17 18 18 19 20 22 22
Netherlands Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 19 20 20 20 21 22
Sweden Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 26 27 22
Canada 16 17 18 19 19 19 19 20
Germany 14 15 15 16 16 17 17 18
Finland 11 11 12 12 13 14 14 15
Denmark Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 10 11 11 12 12 13
Austria 9 9 10 11 11 12 13 13
United States Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
Japan Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 6 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 7
Italy Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 6
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Note 1.

The Conference Board of Canada has established a group of 17 peer countries which are comparable in terms of income, population, and geographic land mass (Conference Board of Canada 2013).

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Note 2.

Figures for the United Kingdom are obtained from the average proportion of female police personnel of England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. No data was available from Scotland in 2004 and 2006.

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Note: Refers to percentages of those in public agencies as of 31 December whose principal functions are the prevention, detection and investigation of crime and the apprehension of alleged offenders. Data concerning support staff (secretaries, clerks, etc.) should be excluded. This table presents data for the peer countries where data were available. The most recent data available from this source on these countries corresponds to the period from 2004 to 2011. Figures for Canada in this table are different from those in Table 7. This is because figures for this table come from unrevised data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) while figures for Canada in Table 7 come from revised data from Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Police Administration Survey.
Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Criminal justice system resources, Total male and female police personnel as at 31 December.
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