Organization
The City of Winnipeg is divided into five policing districts. Each district contains several generalized and specialized police units.
Division 11 – Downtown – City Centre: Patrols Police District 1 – 151 Princess St. – 204-986-6288
Division 12 – West St. James / Assiniboia: Patrols Police District 2 – 210 Lyle St. – 204-986-6060
Division 13 – North Lord Selkirk / West Kildonan: Patrols Police District 3 – 260 Hartford Ave – 204-986-6313
Division 14 – East East Kildonan / Transcona / St. Boniface / St.Vital: Patrols Police East District 1750 Dugald Road – 204-986-6262
Division 16 – South Assiniboine Park / Fort Rouge / Fort Garry: Patrols Police District 6 – 1350 Pembina Hwy – 204-986-6042
Specialized units include:
- Bicycle Patrol Unit
- Bomb Disposal Unit
- Canine Unit
- Central Traffic Unit
- Crowd Management Unit
- Photo Enforcement Unit
- Pawn Unit
- River Patrol Unit
- Underwater Search & Recovery Unit
- Victim Services Unit
- Street Crime Unit
- Tactical Support Team (TST) – formerly the part-time Emergency Response Unit (ERU) made up of officers trained for special circumstances, such as hostage situations, armed and barricaded incidents and search warrants.
- Training Unit – Includes, police vehicle operations instructors, policy and law instructors, firearms instructors, and use of force instructors – located at the WPS Training Academy
- Division 40 – Criminal Investigation Bureau – Homicide, Drugs, Hate Crimes, Major Crimes, Morals, Integrated Proceeds of Crime (IPOC), Organized Crime and Crime Stoppers
- Division 41 – Criminal Investigation Bureau – Missing Persons, Child Abuse, Internet Child Exploitation (ICE), Domestic Violence, High Risk Offenders, Sex Crimes, Vulnerable Persons, and Youth Crime
- Division 42 – Criminal Investigation Bureau – Arson, Commercial Crime, Stolen Auto, Pawn, Surveillance and Forensic Services
- Flight Operations Unit
- Auxiliary Force Cadet Section
| Demographics | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethnic origin | Number | ||||
| Caucasian | 1,076 | 1,109 | 1,148 | 1,169 | 1,157 |
| Aboriginal | 137 | 142 | 148 | 151 | 148 |
| Black | 23 | 24 | 24 | N/A | N/A |
| Filipino | 4 | 5 | 8 | N/A | N/A |
| East Indian | 25 | 14 | 16 | N/A | N/A |
| Visibile Minorities | N/A | N/A | N/A | 91 | 95 |
| Other | 21 | 20 | 24 | N/A | N/A |
| Total | 1,286 | 1,326 | 1,382 | 1,411 | 1,400 |
| By gender | |||||
| Gender | Number | ||||
| Male | 1,110 | 1,142 | 1,185 | 1,213 | 1,200 |
| Female | 177 | 184 | 197 | 198 | 200 |
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