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There are 138 municipal police forces in Canada, with varying size from the Toronto Police Service with 5,500 officers to Luseland, Saskatchewan's police service with only one officer. [1] Railway police, such as the Canadian Pacific Police Service and the Canadian National Police Service, are private police forces that operate within Canada. [2]
[1] [2] In 2018, The CBC published "Deadly Force", an investigative report described as "the first country-wide database of every person who died or was killed during a police intervention", which documented 461 fatal police encounters in Canada between 2000 and 2017, suggesting the average is closer to 26 people a year.
Pages in category "Canadian police officers killed in the line of duty" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Securite du Quebec - the provincial police service mentioned in the Radio-Canada and Bravo series 19-2. It is a fictional version of the Sûreté du Québec. Sûreté Nationale du Québec - the provincial police service in the 1996 Radio-Canada TV series Omerta. It is a fictional version of the Sûreté du Québec.
Margaret Mick (1 June 1860 – 25 May 1925) was Canada's first female peace officer to be killed in the line of duty. On the night of Monday, May 25, 1925 Mick, who worked as a Matron, was the only staff member on duty at the Toronto Municipal Jail Farm for Women in Concord, Ontario.
Official numbers are considerably lower. Official 2018 statistics show only 46 deaths in police custody and 24 deaths of people in police/judicial remand and an additional 21 civilian killed during police operations for a total of 91 nationally. See Table 16A and 16B.4 of Official Govt. of India publication: Crime in India 2018 [48] [49] Australia
The memorial initially recognized police and corrections officers murdered in the line of duty. This was extended to those killed in the line of duty and, in 1995, further expanded to include peace officers in all areas of law enforcement, [4] [a] effective retroactively to 1879. [6] In 2019, there were more than 880 names on the honour roll. [7]
This page contains articles about people who died in police custody in Canada. Pages in category "Deaths in police custody in Canada" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.