Ontario census metropolitan areas are covered by this dataset, which describes police strength. It is based on data from the Police Administration Survey, using the number of police officers in 2012 and populations for 2011. The dataset is no longer compiled by the Ministry of the Solicitor General and can be accessed from Statistics Canada.
Use Cases
- Analyze police staffing density based on the police officers per 100,000 people metric
- Compare law enforcement resources across different census metropolitan areas in Ontario
- Study correlations between urban population size and police strength
Strengths
- Data is sourced from the official Police Administration Survey
- Provides a specific metric (police officers per 100,000 people) for analysis
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Data is based on 2012 police counts and 2011 populations, creating a temporal mismatch
Provenance
- Source
- Government of Ontario | Gouvernement de l'Ontario
- Collection Method
- Data from the Police Administration Survey
- Time Range
- Police officer data from 2012, population data from 2011
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:40:59.307376; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Ontario census metropolitan areas