Table 1. Aboriginal Identity of accused, by type of police service, 2003

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Table 1. Aboriginal Identity of accused, by type of police service, 2003¹
Type of police service²	Identity
	Total	Unknown³	Aboriginal	Non-Aboriginal
	% of accused
Municipal and regional police services	100	42	4	54
Ontario Provincial Police	100	96	2	2
Royal Newfoundland Constabulary	100	99	1	0
Sûreté du Québec	100	1	3	96
Total	100	48	6	47
Note: Due to rounding, percentages may not add up to 100%.
¹ Data are not nationally representative. Based on data from 122 police departments representing 61% of the national volume of crime in 2003.
² The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are not included in this table as they are in the process of converting to the Incident-based UCR Survey.
³ Includes refusal by the police service to report these data.
Data source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, 2003, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
Table source: Statistics Canada, 2005, Collecting Data on Aboriginal People in the Criminal Justice System : Methods and Challenges, Catalogue no. 85-564-XWE2005001.