Sûreté du Québec

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Sûreté du Québec
Coverage
Sûreté du Québec
Sûreté du Québec area
Area Quebec
Size 1,542,056 km²
Population 7,651,531
Operations
Formed May 1st, 1870
HQ Montreal
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Officers 5,163
Districts 10
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Directeur Général Normand Proulx
Website Sûreté du Québec

The Sûreté du Québec or SQ (French for "Quebec Security" or "Quebec Safety", but usually translated loosely as "Quebec Provincial Police") is the provincial police force of Quebec. The headquarters of the Sûreté du Québec is located on Parthenais street in Montreal and the force employs roughly 5,163 officers.

The primary function of the Sûreté du Québec is to enforce provincial laws, some municipal bylaws, the criminal code, and many other laws throughout Quebec and to assist municipal police forces when needed. Members of the force can also act by law as forest conservation agents for example. The Sûreté du Québec is also responsible for providing municipal police services to municipalities in the province that do not otherwise have municipal or regional police services. By law, that includes municipalities with under 50,000 people. As such, the force is mainly present in small rural and suburban areas. The force also patrols provincial highways. In addition, the Sûreté du Québec can investigate any incident that involves wrong-doing by a municipal police force or a case where a police intervention caused death.

In the early 2000s, the force integrated many smaller police services (e.g., Drummondville and Saint-Hyacinthe).

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[edit] History

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On May 1st, 1870 the Quebec provincial government created the Police provinciale du Québec under the direction of Pierre-Antoine Doucet, a judge. This new force took over the headquarters of the Quebec City municipal police, which were then disbanded, although the city relaunched a municipal force in 1877.

In 1900, two distinct provincial police forces were created: the Office of Provincial Detectives of Montreal, in response to a crime wave in that city, and the Revenue Police, whose mission was to collect taxes. In 1902, the government decided that the provincial police should no longer be directed by a judge but by an officer of the police themselves. Augustin McCarthy was chosen as the first chief drawn from the ranks of the police.

In 1922, two headquarters were established, one in Quebec City, headed by McCarthy, and one in Montreal, headed by Dieudonné Daniel Lorrain. The Office of Provincial Detectives of Montreal became part of the general provincial police in that year. The Quebec division included 35 police officers and 2 detectives.

In 1925, police officers started patrolling on motorcycles.

[edit] Montebello Incident

The Quebec Provincial Police admitted in August 2007 that they had used undercover police posing as protestors at the 2007 Montebello SPP meetings. The admission was made after a video captured by protestors was widely circulated in the Canadian media and made available on YouTube [1]. Although use of undercover agents at protests of this kind is widespread, the video is especially controversial because it shows one of the officers carrying a rock, suggesting the police were agents provocateurs and intentionally inciting violence.

[edit] Chiefs and Directors-general

  • Pierre-Antoine Doucet (1870-1877)
  • Jean-Baptiste Amyot (1877-1878)
  • Alexandre Chauveau (1880-1899)
  • Augustin McCarthy (1902 - 1932)
  • Dieudonné Daniel Lorrain (1922 - 1928)
  • Maurice-Charles Lalonde (1929 - 1936)
  • Philippe Aubé (1936 - 1937)
  • Philippe-Auguste Piuze (1937 - 1940)
  • Marcel Gaboury (1940 - 1944)
  • Joseph-Paul Lamarche (1944 - 1950)
  • Hilaire Beauregard (1954 - 1960)
  • Josaphat Brunet (1960 - 1965)
  • J.-Adrien Robert (1965 - 1968)
  • Maurice St-Pierre (1969 - 1973)
  • Paul-A. Benoît (1973 - 1974)
  • Jacques Beaudoin (1974 - 1988)
  • Robert Lavigne (1988 - 1995)
  • Serge Barbeau (1995 - 1996)
  • Guy Coulombe (1996 - 1998)
  • Florent Gagné (1998 - 2003)
  • Normand Proulx (2004 - )

[edit] Districts

  1. Bas-Saint-Laurent-Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine
  2. Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
  3. Capitale-Nationale-Chaudière-Appalaches
  4. Mauricie-Centre-du-Québec
  5. Estrie
  6. Montréal-Laval-Laurentides-Lanaudière
  7. Outaouais
  8. Abitibi-Témiscamingue-Nord-du-Québec
  9. Côte-Nord
  10. Montérégie

[edit] Fleet

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Wild:

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[edit] See also

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