What can you do with a police foundations diploma?

Routes that need more than the degree

1. 01

   Apply to a police service

   The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police lists five steps: meet the requirements, get your OACP Certificate, apply to a police service, receive a job offer, and complete recruit training at the Ontario Police College. It describes the OACP Certificate as a mandatory pre-screening requirement for many services and says services may set additional requirements. The page we read did not name a diploma as a requirement. OACP: getting started in policing
2. 02

   Know how the Ontario Police College fits

   Ontario says the Ontario Police College trains hired police officers and does not offer training to members of the general public. It says people who want to become officers apply to a local police service rather than to the college. Ontario.ca: Ontario Police College
3. 03

   Apply as a correctional officer

   Ontario asks for an Ontario Secondary School Diploma or an approved equivalent, and states that you do not have to take additional corrections or law related courses. The process includes tests, an interview, a fitness test, security screening and an eight-week training program. Ontario.ca: become a correctional officer
4. 04

   Check probation and border services requirements

   Ontario's probation and parole officer page asks for a degree in social work, psychology, sociology or criminology, or a degree in any field plus more than five years of relevant experience, so a diploma alone does not meet it. The Canada Border Services Agency lists a secondary school diploma or equivalent and an unrestricted driver's licence among its prerequisites for border services officers. Ontario.ca: become a probation and parole officer

• The Census is from 2021. Jobs and hiring have moved since. Job Bank's outlook is current to 2025 to 2027.
• It counts employed people and what they do, not whether they wanted that job or use their degree in it. A graduate working as a retail supervisor is counted in the data exactly like one working in their field.
• It is a 25% sample, and Statistics Canada rounds every count to a multiple of five. Small groups are noisy.
• For Ontario the Census publishes bachelor's degree or higher together, so those tables include master's and doctoral graduates.
• Each person is counted once, by their highest credential. A person who finished a diploma and then a degree appears under the degree, not the diploma.
• The 12 jobs shown are the most common, not all of them. The rest of the graduates are spread across hundreds of other jobs.

Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, tables 98-10-0447-01 and 98-10-0403-01; Job Bank (Employment and Social Development Canada) Ontario outlooks and wages, linked on each job. We join them by occupation code and change neither.