Table 11
Current and constant dollar total expenditures on policing, Canada, 1986 to 2012

Table 11
Current and constant dollar total expenditures on policing, Canada, 1986 to 2012
Table summary
This table displays the results of Current and constant dollar total expenditures on policing. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Current dollars, Constant dollars, Total expenditures, Percentage change from previous year and Per capita cost, calculated using thousands of dollars, percent , dollars and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year Current dollarsNote 1 Constant dollarsNote 2
Total expendituresNote 3 Percentage change from previous year Per capita costNote 4 Percentage change from previous year Total expendituresNote 3 Percentage change from previous year Per capita costNote 4 Percentage change from previous year
thousands of dollars percent dollars percent thousands of dollars percent dollars percent
1986 3,771,205 ... 144 ... 5,748,789 ... 220 ...
1987 4,027,809 6.8 152 5.4 5,880,013 2.3 222 0.9
1988 4,389,414 9.0 164 7.6 6,164,908 4.8 230 3.5
1989 4,684,760 6.7 172 4.8 6,263,049 1.6 230 -0.2
1990 5,247,646 12.0 189 10.3 6,693,426 6.9 242 5.3
1991 5,426,887 3.4 194 2.2 6,554,211 -2.1 234 -3.2
1992 5,716,833 5.3 202 4.1 6,805,754 3.8 240 2.6
1993 5,790,165 1.3 202 0.2 6,764,212 -0.6 236 -1.7
1994 5,783,656 -0.1 199 -1.2 6,748,723 -0.2 233 -1.3
1995 5,808,607 0.4 198 -0.6 6,630,830 -1.7 226 -2.8
1996 5,856,055 0.8 198 -0.2 6,587,238 -0.7 222 -1.7
1997 5,989,022 2.3 200 1.3 6,625,024 0.6 222 -0.4
1998 6,209,756 3.7 206 2.8 6,801,486 2.7 226 1.8
1999 6,395,380 3.0 210 2.2 6,884,155 1.2 226 0.4
2000 6,798,531 6.3 222 5.3 7,126,343 3.5 232 2.6
2001 7,269,977 6.9 234 5.8 7,433,514 4.3 240 3.2
2002 7,827,195 7.7 250 6.5 7,827,195 5.3 250 4.2
2003 8,324,176 6.3 263 5.4 8,097,448 3.5 256 2.5
2004 8,758,213 5.2 274 4.2 8,365,055 3.3 262 2.3
2005 9,281,879 6.0 288 5.0 8,674,653 3.7 269 2.7
2006 9,877,071 6.4 303 5.3 9,053,227 4.4 278 3.3
2007 10,544,771 6.8 321 5.7 9,457,194 4.5 288 3.5
2008 11,449,955 8.6 344 7.4 10,035,017 6.1 302 5.0
2009 12,314,197 7.5 366 6.3 10,764,158 7.3 320 6.0
2010 12,651,596 2.7 372 1.6 10,859,739 0.9 319 -0.2
2011Note r: revised 12,952,388 2.4 377 1.4 10,802,659 -0.5 315 -1.5
2012 13,518,135 4.4 389 3.1 11,107,752 2.8 320 1.6
... not applicable
r revised
Note 1.

Dollars which express the cost of items in terms of the year in which the expenditure occurs.

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Note 2.

Dollars of a particular base year, which are adjusted (by inflation or deflation) to show changes in the purchasing power of the dollar. The Consumer Price Index was used to calculate constant dollars over a base year of 2002 (2002=100). Note that historical constant dollar data are revised each year as the base year for calculation changes periodically. Data from the Consumer Price Index (CPI) used to calculate constant dollars are the most recent data available at the time this article was produced.

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Note 3.

Total operating expenditures include salaries, wages, benefits, and other operating expenses that are paid from the police service budget, as well as benefits paid from other government sources. Revenues, recoveries, and those costs that fall under a police service’s capital expenditures are excluded.

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Note 4.

Per capita costs are calculated using populations statistics based on preliminary postcensal estimates for 2013, Statistics Canada, Demography Division.

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Note: Percent change is considered stable if it rounds to 0%.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Consumer Price Index and Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Police Administration Survey.
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