{
  "geography": "City of Victoria (municipality)",
  "scope": "city",
  "levels": [
    "Municipal (Bylaw Services)"
  ],
  "period": "Calendar year 2025",
  "period_start": "2025-01-01",
  "period_end": "2025-12-31",
  "trend": "context",
  "direction_good": "down",
  "refresh_frequency": "Annually (audited report published mid-year)",
  "id": "bylaw-calls",
  "category": "Safety",
  "title": "Bylaw calls for service",
  "plain_question": "How many calls for service did City bylaw officers respond to in the year?",
  "value": 10675,
  "display_value": "10,675",
  "unit": "calls in the year",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "2025",
    "previous_value": 10675,
    "change_percent": null
  },
  "since_text": "Calls by type and month are not published",
  "trend_basis": "The City reports 10,675 bylaw calls for service in 2025.",
  "right_direction": "Shown for context, without a “better” or “worse” label: call counts reflect both problems and how easy it is to report them.",
  "caveats": [
    "One year only, from the Annual Report text. Calls by category, month and time to close are not published as data (see “Not measured yet”)."
  ],
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "2025",
      "value": 10675
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "name": "City of Victoria, Annual Report",
    "url": "https://www.victoria.ca/city-government/corporate-strategic-plan/annual-report",
    "dataset_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/city-government/corporate-strategic-plan/annual-report",
    "download_url": "https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/annual-report-2025"
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution.",
    "url": "https://www.victoria.ca/legal-disclaimer",
    "open": false
  },
  "verified_text": [
    " camp leaders; Bottom: New Foot Patrol and responsive presence while responding to initiative to respond to business and resident needs 10,675 calls for service"
  ],
  "data_published": "2025-07-01",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11T08:25:36Z",
  "attribution": "Source: City of Victoria, Annual Report. Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.",
  "licence_type": "public"
}