Table 8
Police officers by sex, by province and territory, 2014

Table 8
Police officers by sex, by province and territory, 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police officers by sex. The information is grouped by Province and territory (appearing as row headers), Male, Female and Total, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province and territory Male Female Total
number percent number percent number
Newfoundland and Labrador 715 79.9 180 20.1 895
Prince Edward Island 203 86.0 33 14.0 236
Nova Scotia 1,552 82.4 332 17.6 1,884
New Brunswick 1,081 83.7 210 16.3 1,291
Quebec 12,199 75.3 4,002 24.7 16,201
OntarioNote 1 21,151 80.9 4,997 19.1 26,148
Manitoba 2,255 85.2 391 14.8 2,646
SaskatchewanNote 2 1,838 80.1 456 19.9 2,294
Alberta 5,683 81.3 1,307 18.7 6,990
British Columbia 6,836 78.1 1,918 21.9 8,754
Yukon 114 84.4 21 15.6 135
Northwest Territories 170 88.5 22 11.5 192
Nunavut 109 91.6 10 8.4 119
Provincial and territorial totalNote 3 53,906 79.5 13,879 20.5 67,785
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Headquarters and Training Academy 815 73.4 296 26.6 1,111
Canada 54,721 79.4 14,175 20.6 68,896
Note 1.

Excludes personnel from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Headquarters.

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Note 2.

Excludes personnel from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Training Academy.

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Note 3.

Excludes personnel from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Headquarters and Training Academy.

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Note: Represents the actual number of permanent, fully-sworn police officers of all ranks (or their full-time equivalents) as of May 15, 2014. This number also includes officers who are deployed to contract positions and who are not available for general policing duties in their community. Police officers on long-term leave who are not being paid by the police service’s annual budget are excluded.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Police Administration Survey.
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