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Table 6
Hirings and departures of police officers, by province and territory, Canada, 2017/2018

Table 6
Hirings and departures of police officers, by province and territory, Canada, 2017/2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Hirings and departures of police officers. The information is grouped by Province and territory (appearing as row headers), Hirings, Departures, Net gain or loss: hirings and departures, Police officers eligible to retire, Total, Experienced police officers, Recruit, Retirements and Other, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province and territory	Hirings^{Table 6 Note 1}			Departures^{Table 6 Note 1}			Net gain or loss: hirings and departures	Police officers eligible to retire^{Table 6 Note 1}
	Total	Experienced police officers^{Table 6 Note 2}	Recruit^{Table 6 Note 3}	Total	Retirements	Other^{Table 6 Note 4}	Net gain or loss: hirings and departures	Police officers eligible to retire^{Table 6 Note 1}
	number	percent		number	percent		number	percent
Newfoundland and Labrador	53	68	32	44	64	36	9	16
Prince Edward Island	10	100	0	20	65	35	-10	17
Nova Scotia	80	100	0	80	61	39	0	18
New Brunswick	32	100	0	74	51	49	-42	16
Quebec	901	76	24	800	66	34	101	14
Ontario^{Table 6 Note 5}	952	29	71	1,127	71	29	-175	8
Manitoba	112	73	27	117	56	44	-5	10
Saskatchewan^{Table 6 Note 6}	100	76	24	56	39	61	44	9
Alberta	474	55	45	254	63	37	220	6
British Columbia	636	79	21	389	50	50	247	12
Yukon	10	100	0	9	44	56	1	18
Northwest Territories	12	100	0	4	50	50	8	12
Nunavut	9	100	0	4	25	75	5	10
Provincial and territorial total^{Table 6 Note 7}	3,381	61	39	2,978	64	36	403	10
Royal Canadian Mounted Police operation and corporate headquarters, training academy depot division and forensic labs	2	100	0	79	66	34	-77	40
Canada	3,383	61	39	3,057	64	36	326	11
Note 1 Percentages may not sum to 100% due to rounding. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes senior officers, non-commissioned officers and constables who achieved the status of fully-sworn officer prior to the calendar or fiscal year for which data are shown. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes paid police officers who achieved the status of fully-sworn police officer during the calendar or fiscal year prior to the year for which data are shown. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes police officers who departed for reasons other than retirement, such as being hired by another police service, career change, death. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Excludes personnel from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police operations and corporate headquarters. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Excludes personnel from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police training academy depot division and forensic labs. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Excludes personnel from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police operation and corporate headquarters, training academy depot division and forensic labs. Return to note 7 referrer Note: Represents hirings, departures and eligibility to retire during the 2017 calendar or 2017/2018 fiscal year. The percent of officers eligible to retire is calculated using these data, along with the number of fully sworn officers employed on May 15, 2018. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Police Administration Survey.

Date modified:: 2019-10-03