services is split between the RCMP, which provides local and provincial police services to Newfoundland and Labrador's largely rural interior, and the Constabulary, which provides local and provincial police services to the northeast Avalon Peninsula (metropolitan St. John's), the City of Corner Brook, and western Labrador (Churchill Falls, Labrador City, and Wabush). Municipal police Municipal police forces make up the bulk of Canadian police services, and are generally responsible for all criminal matters within their jurisdiction. There are municipal police services in nine provinces, with 12 in British Columbia, seven in Alberta, 12 in Saskatchewan, 10 in Manitoba, 44 in Ontario, 31 in Quebec, nine in New Brunswick, 10 in Nova Scotia, and three in Prince Edward Island. Although most large cities in Canada maintain their own police forces, many police services are maintained by rural communities, and several have only a handful of police officers. The police services in the Rural Municipality of Vanscoy No. 345, Saskatchewan, the Town of Luseland, Saskatchewan, and the Rural Municipality of Cornwallis, Manitoba have one officer each. As the delivery of police services is a provincial responsibility, each province has its own set of standards that police services must meet. In several provinces, such as Ontario, police services must be able to provide 24/7 coverage, investigate all criminal matters, and provide for specialized units such as police dogs. Beginning in the 1970s, and continuing into the 1990s, several municipal police forces were amalgamated (alongside, in many cases, the municipalities they served) into new, regional bodies in the interest of creating efficiencies and reducing costs. As of 2022, there are regional police forces in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. The adoption of regional policing has been controversial, however, and a review of nine Canadian police services in 2016 found that there were no significant differences in cost or service quality between regional and non-regional police forces, and a separate 2015 literature review found that larger police services are less effective and more expensive than those serving about 50,000 people. As of 2022, police regionalization continues to be proposed by both provinces and municipalities, particularly for metropolitan areas where several urban municipalities that border one another each maintain independent police services. Strength In 2019, there were 100,417 active police officers in Canada. Canadian police strength reached a peak in 1975, when there were 206 officers per 100,000 people. Although the current