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6. Criminal Justice System Personnel & Capacity
6.1.1.x Police Personnel (rate)
"Police Personnel (Rate)" means the rate, per 100,000 inhabitants, of Police Personnel as at December 31.
The formula, for a given year or period, is: Police Personnel, Rate (PPR) = (TNPP/PT)*100,000 per.; where TNPP is the total number of Police Personnel; and PT is the total population.
Some countries with less than 100,000 inhabitants have their rates presented for comparison purposes.
"POLICE PERSONNEL" mean personnel in public agencies as at December 31 whose principal functions are prevention, detection and investigation of crime and apprehension of alleged offenders.

[Sources: United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).
For population data: 2019 Revision of World Population Prospects. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Web: https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/]

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Countries
 
    
Antigua and Barbuda2009743.53 
Argentina2015802.19 
Bahamas2021673.74 
Barbados2021437.59 
Belize2019619.28 
Bolivia2011345.40 
Brazil2013270.06 
Canada2021182.33 
Chile201966.75 
Colombia2021333.56 
Costa Rica2015279.27 
Dominica2021758.21 
Dominican Republic2019354.42 
Ecuador2021291.06 
El Salvador2021438.94 
Grenada2019839.66 
Guatemala2019240.34 
Guyana2021596.32 
Haiti------ 
Honduras2021173.10 
Jamaica2021494.68 
Mexico2021321.81 
Nicaragua2010166.53 
Panama2021652.13 
Paraguay2021380.33 
Peru2021406.41 
Saint Kitts and Nevis2021917.02 
Saint Lucia2021680.45 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2019976.92 
Suriname2019349.84 
Trinidad and Tobago2015462.21 
United States2021202.30 
Uruguay2021894.38 
Venezuela------ 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas20120.00 
02. Caribbean20200.00 
03. Central America20200.00 
04. North America20200.00 
05. South America20200.00 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).