Diversity continues to be a major focus at the Windsor Police Service.
The service's 2018 census report has been released and shows continued progress toward diversity and inclusion.
It found the makeup of the service does not completely reflect the census of the general population.
Two-thirds of the employees are over 35 and almost 84% are white.
By comparison just over 3% of officers are of arab descent while 8% of the Windsor population is.
Close to 84% of the officers are male, while more than 70% the civilian employees are female.
Superintendent Frank Providenti says, for the past several years, there's been a concerted effort to include diverse backgrounds in every group of new hires.
He says the ultimate goal is for the service to mirror the community's make up.
Providenti says there's a number of initiatives underway to help.
"We have a diversity officer who is in the trenches everyday meeting with our community partners. Our VIP Program has been very successful, although it's Grade 6, we have had people hired that have been through the VIP Program. Our training branch is out there holding job fairs. So we're actively doing it on a daily basis."
He adds the face of the force is changing.
"We've seen a huge increase in diversity in our membership. Just by looking at the faces around here, it's improved greatly. Ultimately, I would like to be exactly where our citizens in the City of Windsor are. Can we get there? I don't know, we're trying every day to do that and that's our goal."
Nearly 99% of the service's 591 employees took part in the latest census which was done last in 2012.
-- with files from Rob Hindi and Peter Langille --