Approximately how many police officers are there in Canada?

• A. Approximately 40,000
• B. Approximately 60,000
• C. Approximately 80,000
• D. Approximately 70,000

Answer: (D)

Total police officers in Canada come from adding federal, provincial/territorial, and municipal sworn officers. When you include the RCMP and all provincial/territorial police services plus municipal police, the national total is around seventy thousand officers—often cited as about 68,000 to 70,000. That makes the option near seventy thousand the best match because it reflects the full scope of policing across the country, not just a single jurisdiction. The other numbers don’t fit the overall count: forty thousand is too low for the combined agencies, eighty thousand is higher than commonly reported, and sixty thousand is plausible for some years but undercounts the national total.