Police district (Canada)

In the Canadian Republic, each of the 13 provinces and five territories are divided into multiple police districts (French: districts de police), each based on a particular population centre or geographical feature. As all local policing in Canada's provinces is done by that particular province's provincial police, different units and squads of the provincial police are assigned to particular police districts of the province based on need.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canada's main federal law enforcement agency, contracts with each of the five territories to provide policing services on a territorial and local basis; RCMP units/squads are similarly assigned to particular police districts of the territory.

The only locale in Canada not to use this system is the federal capital of Ottawa. As the Municipality of Ottawa forms a single federal district outside the jurisdiction of any province or territory, it has its own local police service, which despite operationally dividing the city according to its boroughs, operates as a single police district.