Table 12
Total expenditures on policing, current dollars, by province and territory, 2012

Table 12
Total expenditures on policing, current dollars, by province and territory, 2012
Table summary
This table displays the results of Total expenditures on policing. The information is grouped by Province and territory (appearing as row headers), Municipal, Provincial, Total, Change from previous year, Federal and Expenditures total, calculated using thousands of dollars and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province and territory MunicipalNote 1 ProvincialNote 1 Total Change from previous yearNote 2 FederalNote 3 Expenditures totalNote 4 Change from previous yearNote 2
thousands of dollars percent thousands of dollars percent
Newfoundland and LabradorNote 5 ... 121,131 121,131 3.4 28,252 149,383 3.5
Prince Edward Island 12,590 14,404 26,994 3.6 6,450 33,444 3.1
Nova Scotia 126,534 104,546 231,080 -0.3 46,271 277,351 0.0
New Brunswick 89,818 74,037 163,855 1.4 36,717 200,572 3.3
Quebec 1,511,946 962,331 2,474,277 1.4 ... 2,474,277 1.4
OntarioNote 6 3,709,294 742,987 4,452,281 1.1 ... 4,452,281 1.1
Manitoba 273,210 108,556 381,766 8.5 55,659 437,425 8.2
SaskatchewanNote 7 172,244 142,726 314,970 6.1 65,035 380,005 6.3
Alberta 930,178 246,104 1,176,282 5.5 130,344 1,306,626 5.4
British ColumbiaNote 8 934,631 338,392 1,273,023 2.8 207,800 1,480,822 1.9
Yukon ... 19,633 19,633 4.5 8,414 28,047 4.5
Northwest Territories ... 39,895 39,895 9.5 17,098 56,993 9.5
Nunavut ... 34,218 34,218 12.8 14,665 48,883 12.8
Provincial and territorial totalNote 9 7,760,445 2,948,960 10,709,405 2.4 616,705 11,326,110 2.3
Other Royal Canadian Mounted Police expendituresNote 10 ... ... ... ... 2,192,025 2,192,025 ...
Canada 7,760,445 2,948,960 10,709,405 2.4 2,808,730 13,518,135 2.8
... not applicable
Note 1.

Figures include the amount billed to the province, territory or municipality for Royal Canadian Mounted Police contract policing. In some provinces, municipal policing is subsidized by the provinces.

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Note 2.

Year to year percent change calculations are based on constant dollar amounts. Constant dollars 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). 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.

Federal expenditures include all other Royal Canadian Mounted Police contract expenditures which are not paid for by the municipality or the province and territory for those provinces and territories with contracts with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (see footnote 10).

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Note 4.

Includes municipal, provincial and territorial, federal and other Royal Canadian Mounted Police expenditures (see footnote 10).

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Note 5.

Provincial policing figures include both the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

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Note 6.

Excludes the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Headquarters.

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Note 7.

Excludes Royal Canadian Mounted Police Training Academy.

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Note 8.

Municipal expenditures do not include those from policing of Vancouver International Airport and Victoria International Airport.

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Note 9.

Excludes Royal Canadian Mounted Police Headquarters and Training Academy.

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Note 10

Includes headquarters, federal and international operations, and national policing services.

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Note: Totals may not add up due to rounding. Expenditure figures represent gross operating expenditures and include costs that are paid from police department budgets and benefits paid from other sources. Revenues, recoveries and capital expenditures are excluded. The Police Administration Survey only collects data on civilian employees paid for by the police service. Therefore, if civilian employees are paid for by the municipality, such as in the case of RCMP detachments, they are not captured by the survey. The per capita cost field is not included as expenditures are not comparable. Per capita costs should not be calculated. Percent change is considered stable if it rounds to 0%.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Police Administration Survey.
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