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Table 2. Aboriginal Identity of victims,1 by type of police service, 20032
Type of police service3 Identity
Total Unknown4 Aboriginal Non-Aboriginal
% of victims
Municipal and regional police services
100
42
2
56
Ontario Provincial Police
100
95
1
4
Royal Newfoundland Constabulary
100
100
0
0
Sûreté du Québec
100
1
3
97
Total
100
44
2
54
Note: Due to rounding, percentages may not add up to 100%.
1 The collection of victim characteristics, such as Aboriginal Identity, is restricted to victims of violent offences only.
2 Data are not nationally representative. Based on data from 122 police departments representing 61% of the national volume of crime in 2003.
3 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.
4 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.