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Visible minority police officers, by province and territories, Canada, 2016 and 2011

Text box 2 table 1
Visible minority police officers, by province and territories, Canada, 2016 and 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of Visible minority police officers. The information is grouped by Province and territory (appearing as row headers), 2016, 2011, Visible minority population, Visible minority commissioned officers, Visible minority police officers (excluding commissioned), Total visible minority officers and Number of visible minority officers per 1,000 visible minority population, calculated using percent and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province and territory 2016Text box Note 1 2011Text box Note 1
Visible minority population Visible minority commissioned officersText box Note 2 Visible minority police officers (excluding commissioned) Total visible minority officers Number of visible minority officers per 1,000 visible minority population Visible minority population Visible minority commissioned officersText box Note 2 Visible minority police officers (excluding commissioned) Total visible minority officers Number of visible minority officers per 1,000 visible minority population
percent rate percent rate
Newfoundland and Labrador 2.3 0.0 1.4 1.4 1.3 1.4 Note ...: not applicable 0.0 0.0 0.0
Prince Edward Island 4.8 0.0 5.0 4.8 2.3 3.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Nova Scotia 6.5 0.0 4.6 4.5 1.5 5.2 0.0 5.5 5.2 2.4
New Brunswick 3.4 0.0 1.6 1.6 1.0 2.3 0.0 1.7 1.7 1.8
Quebec 13.0 3.6 3.6 3.6 0.7 11.0 2.1 3.3 3.2 0.7
Ontario 29.3 9.9 10.7 10.7 0.9 25.9 14.9 10.8 10.9 1.1
Manitoba 17.5 0.0 7.3 7.1 1.0 13.1 0.0 5.0 4.9 1.0
Saskatchewan 10.8 0.0 3.8 3.7 0.9 6.3 0.0 3.2 3.1 1.6
Alberta 23.5 6.9 7.5 7.5 0.8 18.4 0.0 7.6 7.4 1.1
British Columbia 30.3 17.9 15.6 15.6 1.2 27.3 12.9 13.8 13.8 1.4
Yukon 8.5 0.0 6.3 5.9 3.3 6.1 Note ...: not applicable 0.0 0.0 0.0
Northwest Territories 9.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.7 Note ...: not applicable 0.0 0.0 0.0
Nunavut 2.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.6 Note ...: not applicable 0.0 0.0 0.0
Canada 22.3 7.0 8.5 8.4 0.9 19.1 6.6 8.2 8.2 1.1
... not applicable
Note 1

'Visible minority' refers to whether a person belongs to a visible minority group as defined by the Employment Equity Act and, if so, the visible minority group to which the person belongs. The Employment Equity Act defines visible minorities as "persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour". The visible minority population consists mainly of the following groups: South Asian, Chinese, Black, Filipino, Latin American, Arab, Southeast Asian, West Asian, Korean and Japanese.

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Note 2

Commissioned police officers plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate police force administration and police activities such as maintaining law and order and detecting and preventing crime. They are employed by municipal, provincial and federal governments. This unit group includes officers from the rank of staff sergeant to police commissioner. Commissioned officers in the railway police are also included in this unit group.

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Note: All counts in census tabulations undergo random rounding, a process that transforms all raw counts into randomly rounded counts. This may include rounding small counts to zero. This reduces the possibility of identifying individuals in the tabulations.
Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population and 2011 National Household Survey.
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