Table 12
Total expenditures on policing, current dollars, by province and territory, 2013

Table 12
Total expenditures on policing, current dollars, by province and territory, 2013
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 Note ...: not applicable 124,516 124,516 1.1 26,931 151,447 -0.3
Prince Edward Island 13,598 14,474 28,072 2.0 6,693 34,765 1.9
Nova Scotia 131,425 107,094 238,519 2.0 47,422 285,942 1.9
New Brunswick 90,197 85,707 175,904 6.6 41,271 217,175 7.5
Quebec 1,571,872 978,447 2,550,320 1.0 Note ...: not applicable 2,550,320 1.0
OntarioNote 6 3,794,278 750,146 4,544,424 1.1 Note ...: not applicable 4,544,424 1.1
Manitoba 283,460 112,251 395,711 2.0 56,962 452,673 1.8
SaskatchewanNote 7 179,063 152,408 331,471 4.2 69,287 400,758 4.3
Alberta 970,741 252,653 1,223,393 2.5 135,699 1,359,093 2.5
British ColumbiaNote 8 947,912 343,032 1,290,944 1.6 213,128 1,504,072 1.8
Yukon Note ...: not applicable 21,764 21,764 9.0 9,327 31,091 9.0
Northwest Territories Note ...: not applicable 41,009 41,009 1.2 17,575 58,584 1.2
Nunavut Note ...: not applicable 34,222 34,222 -1.1 14,667 48,888 -1.1
Provincial and territorial totalNote 9 7,982,545 3,017,723 11,000,268 1.5 638,963 11,639,230 1.6
Other Royal Canadian Mounted Police expendituresNote 10 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 1,957,255 1,957,255 -11.7
Canada 7,982,545 3,017,723 11,000,268 1.5 2,596,218 13,596,486 -0.6
... 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 unrounded 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 (CPI) was used to calculate constant dollars over a base year of 2002 (2002=100). Data from the 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 the 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 the 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 service budgets and benefits paid from other sources. Revenues, recoveries and capital expenditures are excluded. Current dollars express the cost of items in terms of the year in which the expenditure occurs. 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 Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachments and some municipal police services, 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%. While most Police Administration Survey data on police strength pertain to the snapshot date (May 15, 2014 for the most recent data), data on expenditures refer to either the calendar or fiscal year (2013 for the most recent data).
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Police Administration Survey.
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