Police (per capita) (most recent) by country

Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	Montserrat:	7.81501 per 1,000 people
# 2	Mauritius:	7.28432 per 1,000 people
# 3	Dominica:	6.40311 per 1,000 people
# 4	Italy:	5.55565 per 1,000 people
# 5	Hong Kong:	4.79374 per 1,000 people
# 6	Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:	4.7868 per 1,000 people
# 7	Portugal:	4.64878 per 1,000 people
# 8	Kazakhstan:	4.54998 per 1,000 people
# 9	Latvia:	4.51878 per 1,000 people
# 10	Czech Republic:	4.47613 per 1,000 people
# 11	Slovakia:	3.72086 per 1,000 people
# 12	Lithuania:	3.53934 per 1,000 people
# 13	Malaysia:	3.43936 per 1,000 people
# 14	Thailand:	3.35665 per 1,000 people
# 15	Kyrgyzstan:	3.25049 per 1,000 people
# 16	Slovenia:	3.14023 per 1,000 people
# 17	Moldova:	3.01481 per 1,000 people
# 18	Germany:	2.91153 per 1,000 people
# 19	Ireland:	2.8989 per 1,000 people
# 20	Hungary:	2.88528 per 1,000 people
# 21	Spain:	2.86696 per 1,000 people
# 22	South Africa:	2.7668 per 1,000 people
# 23	Estonia:	2.72543 per 1,000 people
# 24	Poland:	2.61367 per 1,000 people
# 25	Jamaica:	2.57054 per 1,000 people
# 26	Georgia:	2.46034 per 1,000 people
# 27	Norway:	2.42412 per 1,000 people
# 28	Turkey:	2.38057 per 1,000 people
# 29	Iceland:	2.24441 per 1,000 people
# 30	Romania:	2.18728 per 1,000 people
# 31	Colombia:	2.12215 per 1,000 people
# 32	Australia:	2.09293 per 1,000 people
# 33	France:	2.049 per 1,000 people
# 34	United Kingdom:	2.04871 per 1,000 people
# 35	Switzerland:	1.93617 per 1,000 people
# 36	Netherlands:	1.92448 per 1,000 people
# 37	Denmark:	1.91716 per 1,000 people
# 38	Chile:	1.85583 per 1,000 people
# 39	Korea, South:	1.85461 per 1,000 people
# 40	Japan:	1.81103 per 1,000 people
# 41	Sri Lanka:	1.72484 per 1,000 people
# 42	Canada:	1.70767 per 1,000 people
# 43	Zimbabwe:	1.68859 per 1,000 people
# 44	Finland:	1.56347 per 1,000 people
# 45	Zambia:	1.13674 per 1,000 people
# 46	Papua New Guinea:	0.985032 per 1,000 people
# 47	India:	0.956207 per 1,000 people
# 48	Costa Rica:	0.370767 per 1,000 people
	Weighted average:	3.0 per 1,000 people

DEFINITION: Total number of police Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.

SOURCE: Seventh United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, covering the period 1998 - 2000 (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention)

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COMMENTARY

infowars.com 9th December 2009	It is now commonplace for flagrant violation of posse comitatus in the US, with military performing police duties on the streets of Amerika. So I would guess the true number for the US would put it at the top of the chart. We are under total tyranny.
Clouds 22nd June 2009	Italy in 5th place? Depending on the use the governement want to give to the police, it can be a very good o very bad thing... It means that there are more than 300,000 police in a country of 60,000,000 people, a Police State...
Patrick Gentry (USA) 29th January 2008	I did a little research into you question Jack. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics,( http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/lawenf.htm) in 2004 there were 836,787 sworn police officers in the United States Federal, State, County, and Local. This number excludes Part-Time or Reserve Police Officers. According to Fact Monster, (http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0004986.html), the US Census Bureau estimated the US population in 2004 to be 293,655,404. This means that the US police per capita, per 1,000 people, is (836,787/293,655,404)*1000 = 2.849554 This places us at 22 on the list moving South Africa down to 23 and so on.

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