Table 3-1
Police officers and crime rates — Police officers in census metropolitan areas, 2012

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Police officers and crime rates — Police officers in census metropolitan areas, 2012
Table summary
"This table displays selected police personnel and crime statistics. The row headers provide information by Census Metropolitan Area. The column headers provide population size as well as the number and rate of police officers, the percent change in this rate from the previous year, and the Crime Severity Index value (presented as a rate)."
Census metropolitan area 2011  population 1 2012 number of police officers 2 2012 police officers per 100,000  population 3 Percentage change in rate of officers  2011 to 2012 2010 Crime Severity Index 4
  number rate percent rate
Winnipeg 5 , 6 767,277 1,517 198 6 107.2
Thunder Bay 119,999 228 190 -2 107.3
Regina 222,125 422 190 -3 124.5
Saint John 103,412 195 189 -6 79.2
Saskatoon 277,504 497 179 -2 118.7
St. John's 188,653 336 178 -1 93.3
Montréal 3,924,554 6,986 178 -1 80.9
Windsor 331,284 589 178 -1 62.5
Brantford 140,267 245 175 4 92.2
Toronto 5,783,398 10,023 173 -3 54.9
Halifax 5 408,000 698 171 0 87.4
St. Catharines-Niagara 445,363 737 165 -3 60.7
Calgary 1,270,927 2,081 164 3 65.8
Vancouver 5 2,424,544 3,950 163 -2 94.5
Edmonton 1,198,397 1,928 161 -2 89.4
Greater Sudbury 162,892 262 161 1 78.9
Barrie 200,602 313 156 1 58.3
London 499,637 769 154 0 79.0
Guelph 126,106 194 154 1 47.0
Peterborough 123,094 189 154 -5 62.2
Hamilton 737,330 1,129 153 0 65.2
Victoria 362,264 552 152 -2 71.3
Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo 530,248 802 151 5 62.9
Ottawa 7 946,835 1,402 148 1 57.9
Abbotsford-Mission 177,866 262 147 -3 87.9
Kingston 161,350 234 145 -2 59.5
Gatineau 8 311,644 435 140 4 63.6
Sherbrooke 190,154 250 131 0 60.7
Québec 759,446 998 131 3 52.2
Trois-Rivières 149,761 189 126 -1 67.9
Saguenay 145,506 179 123 0 71.1
Kelowna 182,239 206 113 2 97.4
Moncton 138,607 145 105 -8 68.8
1.
Populations are based on preliminary postcensal estimates for 2011, Statistics Canada. Populations are adjusted to follow policing boundaries. Census metropolitan area populations for 2012 are not yet available.
2.
Represents the actual number of permanent, fully-sworn police officers of all ranks (or their full-time equivalents) as of May 15, 2012. This number also includes officers who are deployed to contract positions and who are not available for general policing duties in their community. Police officers on long-term leave who are not being paid by the police service’s annual budget are excluded.
3.
Based on the number of police officers in 2012 and census metropolitan area populations for 2011. Census metropolitan area populations for 2012 are not yet available.
4.
The Crime Severity Index takes into account both the volume and the seriousness of police-reported crime. In the calculation of the Crime Severity Index, each offence is assigned a weight, derived from average sentences handed down by criminal courts. The more serious the average sentence, the higher the weight for that offence. As a result, more serious offences have a greater impact on changes in the index. All police-reported Criminal Code offences, including traffic offences and other federal statute offences, are included in the Crime Severity Index.
5.
Police officer counts include officers deployed to contract positions (e.g. airport, port, United Nations Mission). Includes the South Coast British Columbia Transit Authority and the Lower Mainland Integrated Teams.
6.
As of 2012, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment of Selkirk, Manitoba (rural) is no longer included in the Census Metropolitan Area of Winnipeg, resulting in a higher rate of police strength than in previous years.
7.
Represents the Ontario portion of the Ottawa-Gatineau census metropolitan area.
8.
Represents the Quebec portion of the Ottawa-Gatineau census metropolitan area.
Note(s):
A census metropolitan area consists of one or more neighbouring municipalities situated around a central core. A census metropolitan area must have a total population of at least 100,000 of which 50,000 or more live in the central core. To be included in the census metropolitan area, other adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the central core, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A census metropolitan area typically comprises more than one police service. For a list of police services included in each census metropolitan area, please see Appendix 1. The numbers in table 3-1 do not agree with those in table 3-2 (which report data at the level of individual police services) because most census metropolitan areas comprise more than one police service. The census metropolitan area of Oshawa is not included due to incongruities between policing jurisdiction and census metropolitan area boundaries. Crimes investigated by Royal Canadian Mounted Police federal personnel within census metropolitan areas are included; however, police officer counts do not include Royal Canadian Mounted Police federal police officers. While table 3-1 may be used to compare major metropolitan areas, table 3-2 may be used to compare major police services in Canada.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Police Administration Survey and Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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