Number of municipal and provincial police officers, by province Canada 2019

This statistic shows the total number of police officers in Canada in 2019 at the municipal and provincial level. In 2019, there were 17,989 police officers working for the Ontario municipal police service in Canada.

Number of municipal and provincial police officers in Canada in 2019, by province

Characteristic	Municipal	Provincial
Newfoundland and Labrador	-	400
Prince Edward Island	97	-
Nova Scotia	885	-
New Brunswick	433	-
Quebec	9,303	5,433
Ontario	17,989	5,602
Manitoba	1,579	-
Saskatchewan	1,079	-
Alberta	4,410	-
British Columbia	2,553	-

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December 2020

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Canada

Survey time period

2019

Supplementary notes

The data excludes all personnel from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

* Newfoundland and Labrador does not have any municipal police services. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (a provincial police service) provides policing to most of the larger municipalities.
** Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut do not have any municipal or territorial police services. The RCMP is the sole police force in the territories.

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