Perceptions of police performance in the territories, 2014 Perceptions of police performance in the territories, 2014 Perceptions of the performance of an institution are one marker, among several, of the perceived ability of an institution to perform its duties and carry out its mandate. [...] The rate of police strength, or the number of police officers per 100,000 population, is higher in the territories than it is in the provinces, a trend which has historically been the case (Hutchins 2015). [...] Though the work of police involves a variety of tasks in addition to responding to crime, perceptions of crime are one factor that is associated with the perception of police performance (Cotter 2015). [...] This relatively lower ranking of this measure may be related to the nature of the population, as 49% of respondents in the territories lived in a rural area compared to 18% of respondents in the provinces. [...] The sole exception was the perception of police’s ability to promptly respond to calls, where the proportion of residents in Yukon stating police were doing a good job (56%) was higher than the territorial average (49%).