Supplemental Police Administration Survey, 2017

Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics

Confidential when completed.

Information for Respondents

Authority
This survey is conducted under the authority of the Statistics Act, Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, Chapter S-19. Completion of this questionnaire is a legal requirement under the Statistics Act.

Objective
This survey was designed to produce national statistics on public policing personnel and operating expenditures for Canada. The information collected is widely used by federal and provincial policy makers as well as municipal police service and municipal government personnel. The data are also widely disseminated by the media for the purposes of general public information. The information may also be used by Statistics Canada for other statistical and research purposes.

Confidentiality
Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any information it collects which could identify any person, business or organisation, unless consent has been given by the respondent or as permitted by the Statistics Act.
Information from this survey will be used for statistical purposes only.

Record linkages
To enhance data from this survey, Statistics Canada may combine it with information from other surveys or from administrative sources.

A. Number of Police Officer Hirings/Departures within the year by Overall Years of Service as a Police Officer

(Select one) Calendar Year 2016, Fiscal Year 2016/2017

Hirings (By Overall Years of Service for each of the following categories: Experienced Police Officers, Recruit Graduates)

Overall Years of Service as a Police Officer

Less than 5 years
5 to less than 10 years
10 to less than 15 years
15 to less than 20 years
20 to less than 25 years
25 to less than 30 years
30 to less than 35 years
35 years and over
Information not available
Total (sum lines 1 to 9)

Departures (By Overall Years of Service for each of the following categories: Retirements, Hired by other service^{Note 1}, Other)
Overall Years of Service as a Police Officer

Less than 5 years
5 to less than 10 years
10 to less than 15 years
15 to less than 20 years
20 to less than 25 years
25 to less than 30 years
30 to less than 35 years
35 years and over
Information not available
Total (sum lines 1 to 9)

Police Officers Eligible to Retire as of Calendar or Fiscal Year-End (By Overall Years of Service)

Overall Years of Service as a Police Officer

Less than 5 years
5 to less than 10 years
10 to less than 15 years
15 to less than 20 years
20 to less than 25 years
25 to less than 30 years
30 to less than 35 years
35 years and over
Information not available
Total (sum lines 1 to 9)

B1. Number of Police Officers as of May 15 by Overall Years of Service as a Police Officer

Overall Years of Service as a Police Officer for total police officers

Less than 5 years
5 to less than 10 years
10 to less than 15 years
15 to less than 20 years
20 to less than 25 years
25 to less than 30 years
30 to less than 35 years
35 years and over
Information not available
Total (sum lines 11 to 19)

B2. Number of Police Officers as of May 15 by Age Group (For each of the following categories: Experienced Police Officers, Recruit Graduates)

Age Group

Less than 20 years
20 to less than 25 years
25 to less than 30 years
30 to less than 35 years
35 to less than 40 years
40 to less than 45 years
45 to less than 50 years
50 to less than 55 years
55 to less than 60 years
60 years and over
Information not available
Total (sum lines 21 to 31)

C. Number of Police Officers as of May 15 by Highest Level of Education Completed at Time of Hiring (For each of the following categories: Experienced Police Officers, Recruit Graduates)

Highest Level of Education Completed at Time of Hiring

High school diploma
College, CEGEP or other certificate or diploma
University Undergraduate degree
University Graduate degree (i.e. master's degree, Ph.D)
Other
Information not available
Total (sum lines 33 to 38)

D. Number of Police Officers as of May 15 by Visible Minority and Aboriginal Populations (For each of the following categories: Experienced Police Officers, Recruit Graduates)

Visible Minority Status

Aboriginal Peoples (First Nations (North American Indian), Métis or Inuit)
Visible Minority (persons other than Aboriginal persons who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour)
Not a Visible Minority or Aboriginal Person (Caucasian in race or white in colour, regardless of place of birth)
Information not available
Total (sum lines 40 to 43)

E. Number of Police Officers as of May 15 by Official Languages Spoken (For each of the following categories: Experienced

Police Officers, Recruit Graduates)

Official languages spoken

English only
French only
Both English and French
Information not available
Total (sum lines 45 to 48)

F. Number of Police Officers as of May 15 speaking Non-Official Languages (For each of the following categories: Experienced Police Officers, Recruit Graduates)

Non-official languages spoken

Speak non-official languages
Do not speak non-official languages
Information not available
TOTAL (sum lines 50 to 52)

G. Number of Police Officers as of May 15 by Non-Official Languages Spoken (For each of the following categories: Experienced Police Officers, Recruit Graduates)

Note: You can select multiple languages per officer in this table.

Non-official languages spoken

Chinese languages
Italian
German
Punjabi
Spanish
Arabic
Tagalog
Portuguese
Other
63. Information not available

Comments and/or Explanations

Instructions

For all tables please include:

Permanent full-time (works 37.5 hours per week or more) and part-time (works less than 37.5 hours per week) employees (experienced officers and recruit graduates) on the personnel roster. Convert permanent part-time employees to a full-time equivalent. For example, four permanent part-time workers who each work ten hours a week would be considered one full-time employee.
Police officers who are paid from external agencies through full or partial cost-recovery agreements, (e.g. airport policing contracts).
Police officer personnel actively replacing, (or 'backfilling' the positions held by), police officers on long-term leave from the police service, and who are paid by the police service's annual budget.

For all tables please exclude:

Contract or casual workers who are not employed on a permanent basis.
Police officers on long-term leave (educational, disability, 'secondment-out') who are not being paid by the police service's annual budget.

Table A – Number of Police Officer Hirings/Departures within the year by Overall Years of Service As a Police Officer

Overall Years of Service as a Police Officer: Please report the number of years of service as a police officer. Depending on your source for this information, 'overall years of service' may exclude prior years of policing experience. For example, many Human Resource Records Management Systems rely on the concept of pensionable years of service when reporting actual years of service. In some cases, systems may not carry over years of service an officer acquired during previous employment with a different police service. Additionally, not all systems distinguish between prior years of service as a civilian employee and prior years of service as a police officer. In both these cases, please report the number of years of service that is available in your system.

Note: Reasons other than the ones mentioned above may exist for why 'overall years of service' may exclude prior years of experience for police officers. However, in all cases, please report your data as accurately as possible within the limits of these constraints and exclusions and indicate the nature of and reason for these constraints in the comments.

If information on the years of service accumulated by officers who were hired by or departed your police service during the past calendar or fiscal year is unavailable, please provide the number of officers who were hired or who departed in both Line 9 (Information not available) and Line 10 (Total).

Experienced Police Officers include: Senior Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Constables who achieved the status of a fully-sworn police officer prior to the previous calendar year or fiscal year.

Recruit Graduates include: Paid personnel who successfully graduated from a training program during the previous calendar year or fiscal year and have achieved the status of fully-sworn police officer.

Note: This category excludes personnel currently engaged in training programs intended to enable them to achieve the status of fully-sworn officer, but who have not yet achieved that status.

Hirings/Departures: Number of Police Officers who were either hired by your police service or who departed from your police service in the previous calendar year or fiscal year.

Retirements: Number of police officers who retired in the previous calendar year or fiscal year based on age and/or years of service.

Eligible to retire: Number of police officers who were eligible to retire with a full pension as of your previous year's calendar or fiscal year-end, based on age and/or years of service. Do not include police officers who did retire within the calendar or fiscal year.

Calendar year: Refers to January 1 to December 31 of the previous year.

Table B – Number of Police Officers as of May 15 by Overall Years of Service As a Police Officer and Age Group

Total Police Officers: The total number of police officers equals the total of both recruit graduates and experienced police officers including Senior Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Constables.

Note: Please follow instructions for Table A regarding definitions for Experienced Police Officers and Recruit Graduates. Table B refers to Total Police Officers, Experienced Police Officers and Recruit Graduates as of the May 15th snapshot date, whereas Table A refers to counts based on the previous calendar year or fiscal year.

Table C – Number of Police Officers as of May 15 by Highest Level of Education Completed at Time of Hiring

Highest Level of Education Completed at Time of Hiring: Educational attainment at time of hiring as of the May 15 snapshot date. Please include the highest level of education completed. For example, if only one year of undergraduate education was completed, the highest level of education completed in its entirety would be either "High school diploma" or "College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma."

Please do not provide information on the most recent level of education completed (such as in the case of a police officer obtaining a university undergraduate degree during the course of their career as a police officer. If information about highest level of education completed at time of hiring is unknown, please indicate "Information not available."

Note: Please follow instructions for Table A regarding definitions for Experienced Police Officers and Recruit Graduates. Table C refers to Experienced Police Officers and Recruit Graduates as of the May 15 snapshot date whereas Table A refers to counts based on the previous calendar year or fiscal year.