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Table 4
Motor vehicle theft clearance rates1,
Canada, provinces and territories, 2002
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Number of incidents |
Percentage cleared by
charge |
Percentage cleared otherwise |
Total clearance rate (%) |
| Newfoundland and Labrador |
599 |
25.0 |
5.0 |
30.1 |
| Prince Edward Island |
244 |
15.2 |
5.3 |
20.5 |
| Nova Scotia |
2,639 |
10.6 |
5.4 |
16.0 |
| New Brunswick |
1,576 |
15.0 |
5.5 |
20.5 |
| Quebec |
36,904 |
6.8 |
2.1 |
8.9 |
| Ontario |
45,835 |
7.7 |
7.2 |
15.0 |
| Manitoba |
12,121 |
11.4 |
2.1 |
13.4 |
| Saskatchewan |
6,904 |
14.5 |
7.1 |
21.6 |
| Alberta |
17,948 |
10.3 |
5.8 |
16.1 |
| British Columbia |
35,980 |
3.4 |
1.8 |
5.2 |
| Yukon |
220 |
14.1 |
12.3 |
26.4 |
| Northwest Territories |
336 |
24.7 |
12.8 |
37.5 |
| Nunavut |
200 |
13.0 |
12.5 |
25.5 |
| CANADA |
161,506 |
7.6 |
4.3 |
11.9 |
1 An incident is cleared by charge when at least one accused has been formally charged. An incident
is cleared "otherwise" when the police have identified at least one accused and there is sufficient
evidence to lay a charge in connection with the incident, but the accused is processed by other means.
This could occur for a number of reasons: the police may have used discretion and decided not to lay
a charge, or the accused has been diverted to an alternative measures program.
Source: Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Canadian Centre
for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada.
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