Table 10
Current and constant dollar expenditures on policing, Canada, 1985 to 2011

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Current and constant dollar expenditures on policing, Canada, 1985 to 2011
Table summary
"This table displays trends in expenditures on policing. The row headers provide information by year. The column headers provide information on total expenditures (in thousands of dollars), percent change from the previous year, and per capita cost in dollars, in both current and constant dollars."
Year Current dollars 1 Constant dollars 2
Total expenditures 3 Percentage change from previous year Per capita cost Total expenditures 3 Percentage change from previous year Per capita cost 4
  thousands of dollars percent dollars thousands of dollars percent dollars
1985 3,542,240 ... 137 5,622,603 … 218
1986 3,771,205 6.5 144 5,748,788 2.2 220
1987 4,027,809 6.8 152 5,880,013 2.3 222
1988 4,389,414 9.0 164 6,164,907 4.8 230
1989 4,684,760 6.7 172 6,263,048 1.6 230
1990 5,247,646 12.0 189 6,693,426 6.9 242
1991 5,426,887 3.4 194 6,554,211 -2.1 234
1992 5,716,833 5.3 202 6,805,754 3.8 240
1993 5,790,165 1.3 202 6,764,211 -0.6 236
1994 5,783,656 -0.1 199 6,748,723 -0.2 233
1995 5,808,607 0.4 198 6,630,830 -1.7 226
1996 5,856,055 0.8 198 6,587,238 -0.7 222
1997 5,989,022 2.3 200 6,625,024 0.6 222
1998 6,209,756 3.7 206 6,801,485 2.7 226
1999 6,395,380 3.0 210 6,884,155 1.2 226
2000 6,798,531 6.3 222 7,126,343 3.5 232
2001 7,269,977 6.9 234 7,433,514 4.3 240
2002 7,827,195 7.7 250 7,827,195 5.3 250
2003 8,324,176 6.3 263 8,097,447 3.5 256
2004 8,758,213 5.2 274 8,365,055 3.3 262
2005 9,281,879 6.0 288 8,674,653 3.7 269
2006 9,877,071 6.4 303 9,053,227 4.4 278
2007 r 10,544,771 6.8 320 9,457,194 4.5 287
2008 r 11,449,955 8.6 344 10,035,018 6.1 301
2009 r 12,314,197 7.5 365 10,764,158 7.3 319
2010 r 12,651,596 2.7 371 10,859,739 0.9 318
2011 12,931,555 2.2 375 10,785,284 -0.7 313
1.
Dollars which express the cost of items in terms of the year in which the expenditure occurs.
2.
Dollars of a particular base year, which are adjusted (by inflation or deflation) to show changes in the purchasing power of the dollar. The Consumer Price Index was used to calculate constant dollars over a base year of 2002 (2002=100). Note that historical constant dollar data are revised each year as the base year for calculation changes periodically.
3.
Total operating expenditures include salaries, wages, benefits, and other operating expenses that are paid from the police force budget, as well as benefits paid from other government sources. Revenues, recoveries, and those costs that fall under a police service's capital expenditures are excluded.
4.
Per capita costs are calculated using populations statistics based on preliminary postcensal estimates for 2011, Statistics Canada, Demography Division.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Consumer Price Index and Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Police Administration Survey.
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