Number of civilian police personnel in Canada 2000-2023

Counts include civilians on the police service's payroll employed as clerks, dispatchers, managers, cadets, special constables, security officers, school crossing guards, and by-law enforcement officers. The Police Administration Survey only collects data on civilian employees paid by the police service. Therefore, if civilian employees of a police service are paid for by the municipality, such as in the case of RCMP detachments and some municipal police services, they are not captured by the survey. 

Adapted from Statistics Canada, Police personnel, and selected crime statistics, 2000 to 2023. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.