Police Personnel and Crime Statistics for Canada, Provinces, and Territories, 1986-2025
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Description
Statistics Canada provides data on police personnel numbers, police-civilian ratios, and selected crime statistics from 1986 to 2025. The dataset covers Canada, its provinces and territories, as well as specific Royal Canadian Mounted Police units and facilities. Data points include police officers by gender, civilian personnel, and authorized strength per 100,000 population.
Use Cases
Analyze trends in police officer gender representation based on personnel counts by gender.
Model the relationship between police strength per capita and crime statistics over a multi-decade period.
Compare law enforcement resource allocation across Canadian provinces and territories using police-civilian ratio data.
Benchmark authorized police officer strength against actual personnel numbers for organizational planning.
Strengths
Data spans a 39-year period from 1986 to 2025, providing long-term trend analysis.
Coverage includes national, provincial, territorial, and specific RCMP organizational unit levels.
Includes multiple metrics such as personnel counts, ratios, and crime statistics for cross-analysis.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
Provenance
Source
Statistics Canada | Statistique Canada
Time Range
1986 to 2025
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-21 12:48:23.990966
Geography
Canada, provinces, territories, and specific RCMP units (corporate headquarters, training academy, Depot Division, forensic labs)
License is OGL-CA-2.0; users should review its terms for reuse and attribution requirements.