4% have no women in Top Command positions, and only 1 of the 235 agencies has a woman of color in their highest ranks. " (2001, The Status of Women in Policing). This information shows that female officers in 2001 were away from seniority, but according to Statistics Canada. In 2010 there were about "8.7% senior female officers, 15.2% Non-commissioned female officers, and 21.4% female Constables " (2010 Statcan). This information is crucial because it shows that female officers are becoming easily noticed in Canada Many changes have gone through, and women are now ranked the same as men would be in the police force. .
Since the number of female police officers in Canada is still low according to Statistics Canada, the female aboriginal police force statistics are almost untraceable and there was only once source that stated "There are now approximately 100 Aboriginal women police officers in Canada. " (2011 NWAC). This easily creates an issue to the aboriginal society. Being excluded from statistics, the aboriginal lacks in spreading information about their contribution to Canada's police force. (2011 NWAC). Also "Aboriginal people usually work things out amongst themselves. " (2011 NWAC) which is also another reason to why it is very hard for aboriginal people to become public, because they keep everything in their community. .
There is one similarity and one difference between aboriginal female police officers, and female police officers in Canada. Both aboriginal and non-aboriginal female police officers are victimized because of their gender (2011 NWAC), but the difference between non-aboriginal and aboriginal female police officers would be that "aboriginal female officers are not only victimized for their gender, but also because they are aboriginal. " (2011 NWAC). Women in Canada are known to be victimized and a survey shows that "Of the women, 9,9% reported severe violent victimization by one or more categories of persons in the past year [and] Among the women, 7.