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Police personnel

  2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
  number
Police personnel 75,861 77,058 79,154 80,888 82,093
Police officers 55,954 57,076 58,422 59,412 59,906
Civilian personnel 19,907 19,982 20,732 21,476 22,187
Police-civilian ratio 2.81 2.86 2.82 2.77 2.70
  rate
Population per police officer 548.5 543.5 537.0 532.9 533.3
Criminal Code incidents per police officer1 42.0 41.6 41.4 43.3 ..
1. Data exclude Criminal Code traffic incidents.
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM, table 254-0002 and product no. 85-225-X.
Last modified: 2004-12-16.

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