Police Resources in Ontario: Hiring, Retirement, and Staff Counts

Data from the Police Administration Survey includes details about police hiring, retirement, retirement eligibility, and minority status. The dataset also includes the number of police officers and civilian staff. It was compiled by the Government of Ontario and is accessible via Statistics Canada.

Use Cases

• Analyze workforce attrition and planning based on retirement and retirement eligibility data.
• Study diversity and representation in policing based on minority status information.
• Model staffing levels and resource allocation based on counts of police officers and civilian staff.
• Track hiring trends over time to understand recruitment patterns.

Strengths

• Includes multiple personnel dimensions: hiring, retirement, eligibility, and minority status.
• Sourced from an official government survey (Police Administration Survey).
• Available in multiple formats (CSV, HTML, DOCX) for different use cases.

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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government of Ontario, Ministry of Solicitor General (formerly), Statistics Canada

Collection Method

Police Administration Survey

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-17 12:01:06.172079; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Ontario, Canada