Actual Incident: When a crime is reported to the police, the incident is recorded as “reported”.  Police then conduct a preliminary investigation to determine the validity of the report.  Occasionally, crimes reported to the police prove to be unfounded.  Unfounded incidents are subtracted from the number of reported incidents to produce the number of actual incidents.

Criminal Code: The Criminal Code is a federal law that includes definitions of most of the criminal offences that the Parliament of Canada has enacted.

Crime Rate: A crime rate describes the number of actual incidents reported to a Police Detachment for every 100,000 persons within a population. (Note: When populations are less than 1,000, crime rates are suppressed.)

• Violent Crime Rate (Crimes Against Persons): Involve offences that deal with the application, or threat of violence or force to a person, including homicide, attempted murder, assault, sexual assault, and robbery..
• Property Crime Rate: Involve unlawful acts to gain property, but do not involve the use or threat of violence against the person. They include offences such as break and enter, theft, and mischief.
• Other Criminal Code Crime Rate: Includes crimes such as disturbing the peace and offences against the administration of justice (e.g., failure to comply with an order, failure to appear, and breach of probation).

Crime Severity Index (CSI): The CSI measures changes in the level of severity of crime in Canada from year to year. In the index, all crimes are assigned a weight based on their seriousness. More serious crimes are assigned higher weights, less serious offences lower weights. As a result, more serious offences have a greater impact on changes in the index.

• Violent Crime Severity Index (VCSI): The violent crime severity index includes all Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR2) violent violations, some of which were not previously included in the aggregate violent crime category, including uttering threats, criminal harassment and forcible confinement.
• Non-Violent Crime Severity Index (NVCSI): The non-violent crime severity index includes all non-violent Criminal Code violations including traffic, as well as drug violations and all Federal Statutes.

Percent Change: Represents the year-over-year (Current year over last year) percentage change in the rate of actual incidents. To calculate percent change: (new value-old value)/(old-value) x 100%.

Police Detachment: A police detachment is a form of division of a geographical area patrolled by a police service.

Police Detachment Population: Is the sum of the populations of each community within the Police Detachment.  Community Population for 2022 data from  Population estimates, July 1, by census division, 2016 boundaries, inactive