Table 8
Police officers by sex, by province and territory, 2014
Province and territory | Male | Female | Total | ||
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number | percent | number | percent | number | |
Newfoundland and Labrador | 715 | 79.9 | 180 | 20.1 | 895 |
Prince Edward Island | 203 | 86.0 | 33 | 14.0 | 236 |
Nova Scotia | 1,552 | 82.4 | 332 | 17.6 | 1,884 |
New Brunswick | 1,081 | 83.7 | 210 | 16.3 | 1,291 |
Quebec | 12,199 | 75.3 | 4,002 | 24.7 | 16,201 |
OntarioNote 1 | 21,151 | 80.9 | 4,997 | 19.1 | 26,148 |
Manitoba | 2,255 | 85.2 | 391 | 14.8 | 2,646 |
SaskatchewanNote 2 | 1,838 | 80.1 | 456 | 19.9 | 2,294 |
Alberta | 5,683 | 81.3 | 1,307 | 18.7 | 6,990 |
British Columbia | 6,836 | 78.1 | 1,918 | 21.9 | 8,754 |
Yukon | 114 | 84.4 | 21 | 15.6 | 135 |
Northwest Territories | 170 | 88.5 | 22 | 11.5 | 192 |
Nunavut | 109 | 91.6 | 10 | 8.4 | 119 |
Provincial and territorial totalNote 3 | 53,906 | 79.5 | 13,879 | 20.5 | 67,785 |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Headquarters and Training Academy | 815 | 73.4 | 296 | 26.6 | 1,111 |
Canada | 54,721 | 79.4 | 14,175 | 20.6 | 68,896 |
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Police Administration Survey. |
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