Canada’s provincial RCMP divisions reported 30 individual payments related to police service dog bites during this ten-year period, nearly all of which occurred in British Columbia and Alberta. Nova Scotia RCMP had a single dog bite settlement in the amount of $17,000 between 2013 and 2024, and records from Quebec’s RCMP division also show only one payment for $25,000. In 2023, police service dogs were used as a “police intervention option” 785 times nationwide, with B.C. About 50 per cent of the time a police service dog was deployed, a bite was reported. “The number of RCMP Police Service Dog criminal apprehensions where a bite occurs has a direct relationship with the number of police service dogs available in a province,” RCMP Staff Sergeant Kris Clark told the Investigative Journalism Foundation.