"Surname 4BackgroundStatistics Canada collects the Canadian information on police expenditure and personnelthrough the annual Police Administration Survey. Each police service in Canada gives reports,and it is from these reports that details on police expenditure and personnel are provided atnational, provincial and municipal levels. It is from these reports also that we review the impactof changes in the police resources, staff numbers, on apprehensions and recorded crime. Thereview includes an examination of literature focusing of the relationship that exists between thepolice deployment, crime rates, arrests made and number of police officers. The concept ofpolice strength is used in the entire report, and it refers to the number of law enforcement officersper every 100,000 people in a particular area in Canada, province, police jurisdiction, or a census5 metropolitan area. It is used to enable comparison over time and geographyDiscussionsThe total number of police officers in Canada was 69,272 in May 2013. There were 233officers less in 2013 as compared to 2012, and this represented 197 police officers for every100,000 people making a difference of -1.5% in the year before. According to PoliceAdministration Survey, this was a third annual consecutive decrease. It shows a continuousdecline in the rate of police strength in Canada as a country.In Canada, the trend in the strength of the police has never followed the rate of crime.Long-term trends in crime rate and strength of police have indicated that the two trends do notfollow each other. Both crime rate and police strength were increased in 1960-1970. The rate of5 Perreault, Samuel. Police-reported crime statistics in Canada, 2012. Ottawa: The CanadianCentre for Justice Statistics (CCJS), 2012. Web. <http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002- x/2013001/article/11854-eng.pdf>.4 Surname 5strength of the police has proven to be stable when compared to the crime rate since the mid ofthe 1970s. It later picked in 1991 and began falling again. In the year 2012, which is the latestyear for which data is available, there was a 3 percent decrease in the crime reported by thepolice from the year before. This marked the lowest crime rate since the year 1972. Chart 1below shows the rate of crime and the rate of police strength in Canada from the year 1962 to2013. In comparison to other similar countries, the country has low rates of police strengths. In2011, Canada recorded the smallest rate of police strength as compared to her neighboringcountries whose data was readily available. This was according to the UNODC (United NationsOffice on Drugs and Crime), a placement that has remained consistent since the year 2003. Italyhad the most consistent and the highest number of police strength per 100,000 people of the peercountries since 2003. On the contrary, Norway and Finland had the lowest police strength rate(Burbidge 65). The police strength rate in Canada has consistently gone lower as compared to theUnited States of America. According to UNODC, from 2003 to 2011, the police strength average6 rate in Canada was seventeen percent lower as compared to the United StatesCalculating,? In 2012: police population = 69505, making police strength =200 officers/100000 people? In 2013: police population =69272, making police strength = 197officers/100000 peopleChange in police strength = 200 – 197 = 3Percentage decline = {3/200} x 100= 1.5%Therefore, percentage change = -1.56 Brogden, Mike and NijharPreeti. Community policing. London: Routledge, 2013. Print.5 Surname 66 "