The Peel Regional Police serve approximately 1.48 million citizens of Mississauga and Brampton, located immediately west and northwest of Toronto, and provides law enforcement services at Toronto Pearson International Airport (located in Mississauga) which annually sees 50 million travelers.

Since the creation of this police force, six deaths have been recorded, five from traffic accidents (the latest in March 2010) and one from a stabbing in 1984.

The unit is responsible for 105 square kilometers of waterways, including Lake Ontario and rivers that run in the region using 3 boats.

Winter jackets are either black or reflective orange and yellow with the word police in white and blue at the back.

Senior officers wear gold collar brass (on the collar of their shirts) and dark-navy rank slip-ons on the epaulets of their shirts, sweaters, and jackets with embroidered Canadian flags, no badge numbers, and applicable rank insignia above the flag.

On dark navy V-neck sweaters, an embroidered patch is worn on the left chest with police in white.

Officers of the Sikh faith are permitted to wear uniform turbans (dark navy blue with red stripe and cap badge).

The force's logo moves forward along the stripe with the motto and phone number on the rear back door.

Jennifer Evans and the Peel Police Service faced a 21 million dollar lawsuit alleging that they unlawfully interfered in the operation of the special investigations unit.

[9][10][11] Previously, Evans had faced numerous calls for resignation after refusing to stop carding and implementing body worn cameras for all the frontline police officers.

[25] An autopsy conducted by the Ontario Coroner's Office showed that the unarmed teenager was struck by a hollow-point bullet to the back of the head.

Shortly after Lawson's death, the Attorney General of Ontario and the black Canadian community pressured the government to establish a race relations and policing task force.

This task force made several recommendations, and the result led the provincial government to create a law enforcement oversight agency known as the Special Investigations Unit (S.I.U.)

for conducting investigations and laying charges against police officers for their actions resulting in a civilian's injury or death.