Table 9
Female police officers as a percentage of total police officers, by peer country, 2004 to 2012

Table 9
Female police officers as a percentage of total police officers, by peer country, 2004 to 2012
Table summary
This table displays the results of Female police officers as a percentage of total police officers. The information is grouped by Peer country (appearing as row headers), 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 (appearing as column headers).
Peer countryNote 1 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Sweden Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 26 27 22 29
United KingdomNote 2 21 22 23 24 25 26 26 27 27
Ireland Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 25
Norway Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 18 18 19 20 22 22 24
Netherlands Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 19 20 20 20 21 22 22
Canada 16 17 18 19 19 19 19 20 20
Germany 14 15 15 16 16 17 17 18 19
Finland 11 11 12 12 13 14 14 15 15
Austria 9 9 10 11 11 12 13 13 13
Denmark Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 11 11 12 12 13 13
United States Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
Japan Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 6 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 7 7
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Note 1.

The Conference Board of Canada has established a group of 16 peer countries which are comparable in terms of population, geographic land mass, and income (gross domestic product) per capita (Conference Board of Canada 2014).

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Note 2.

Figures for the United Kingdom are obtained from adding the number of police personnel in England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. No data was available for Scotland in 2004 and 2006. Although some data was available for Scotland in 2005, the number of female police officers was not, therefore, the percentage for the United Kingdom in 2005 is not based on data from Scotland.

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Note: Refers to percentages of those in public agencies as at 31 December whose principal functions are the prevention, detection and investigation of crime and the apprehension of alleged offenders. Data concerning support staff (secretaries, clerks, etc.) should be excluded. Information on number of police officers by gender was not available for Australia, Belgium, and France. Figures for Canada in this table are different from those in Table 7. This is because figures for this table come from unrevised data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) while figures for Canada in Table 7 come from revised data from Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Police Administration Survey. Percentages based on the total of reported male and female police officers, which in some cases is different from the number of total police officers.
Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Criminal justice system resources, Total Police Personnel at the National Level; Male Police Personnel at the National Level; and Female Police Personnel at the National Level.
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