The Waterloo Regional Police Service carefully monitors crime in our community. Our Crime Analysis Branch is responsible for identifying real-time similarities and ongoing trends throughout the year. The Strategic Services Branch collects data, measures, and analyzes the broader information to provide informed operational recommendations. Our data is open to the public and can be used to conduct your research.
Criminal Offense Summaries
A year in review - this is the section where we take a look at our year-end counts, clearance rates and other happenings that helped shape the past year. The summaries are calculated annually and published with the Annual Report and by Statistics Canada.
Occurrence Data
The Waterloo Regional Police Service is committed to ensuring transparency with our community. As such, the WRPS releases an occurrence dataset yearly that details all the police-reported occurrences for the calendar year. This file is offered in both Excel and CSV formats and is intended to be used for data analysis purposes. WRPS has taken the necessary steps to ensure that the data is anonymized. Each record of the dataset contains information on the call type, general location, and call and service time information.
Any statements, conclusions, or publications based upon this WRPS occurrence data made by non-WRPS employees are made without the authorization of WRPS and are not the opinion of the WRPS.
Please review the About Our Data document, which provides information on how the occurrence data is created and the definitions of the data fields. The Occurrence Data is a raw and machine-readable dataset that is intended to be read, analyzed and interpreted by software and analytics tools.
Regulated Interactions and Intelligence Notes
The Waterloo Regional Police Service is committed to ensuring transparency with our community. As such, the WRPS releases regulated interactions and intelligence note datasets yearly that detail all the regulated interactions/intelligence notes conducted for the calendar year.
This file is offered in an Excel format and is intended to be used for data analysis purposes. WRPS has taken the necessary steps to ensure that the data is anonymized. Each .zip file contains a dataset as well as a usage guide. Please review the usage guide, which provides information on the definitions of the data fields and limitations of the data.
Any statements, conclusions, or publications based upon this WRPS occurrence data made by non-WRPS employees are made without the authorization of WRPS and are not the opinion of the WRPS.
Regulated Interactions
Intelligence Notes
Use of Force
Search of Persons
Missing Persons
Zone Maps
The WRPS Zones contain operational boundaries used by the Waterloo Regional Police Service. This file is available in KML format and is intended to be read, analyzed and interpreted by Geographic Information System software and analytics tools. Users of this data are responsible for reading and acknowledging the limitations of this data.
National Crime Statistics
Due to the length of investigations, follow-up, evidence processing, and the complexity of crime, police services are typically given until March 31st each year to submit their year-end UCR statistics. Statistics Canada then runs a variety of verification processes, and their tables and reports for the previous year’s crime statistics begin to be published near the end of July.
The publication includes the volume and severity of police-reported crimes, clearance rates, and more, broken out by province, census metropolitan area, municipal and police service. Visit www.statcan.gc.ca and search for incident-based crime statistics and crime severity indexes to learn more.
Crime Map
Want to know what's happening in your neighbourhood? The Crime Map can show you. The Crime Map offers an interactive platform to view police calls for service in Waterloo Region. Customize the Crime Map using the call types and time frame that interest you.