Service de police de la Ville de Montréal
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| Service de police de la Ville de Montréal
Montreal Police Service |
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| French: Ensemble pour mieux vous servir
English: United to serve you better |
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| Established: | ? |
| Headquarters: | Montreal |
| Divisions: | 33 (neighbourhood police stations) |
| Chief of Police: | Yvan Delorme |
| Sworn officers: | 4,200 [1] |
| Civilian employees: | 1,000 [1] |
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The Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) (French for City of Montreal Police Service) is the police force for the city of Montreal, Québec, Canada. With about 4,200 officers, 1,000 civilian staff and 200 cadets, it is the second largest municipal police agency in Canada after the Toronto Police Service.
The standard sidearm of the service is the Walther P99QA.
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[edit] Organization
The force is lead by Director of Police Yvan Delorme.
The rank structure and current strength of the force is:
- Directeur (Director) (1)
- Associate Director (3)
- Assistant Director (8)
- Chief Inspector (14)
- Inspector (12)
- Commander (91)
- Lieutenant (50),
- Detective Lieutenant (63)
- Sergeant (449)
- Detective Sergeant (550)
- Constable (3,141)
Some of the police functions carried out by the service, include:
- Neighbourhood police officers
- Intervention officers
- Technical response officers (SWAT)
- Motorcycle officers
- Community relations officers
- Physical surveillance officers (shadowing)
- Neighbourhood or Section chiefs
- Investigators
- Dog handlers
- Mounted patrol officers
- Marine patrol officers
- Neighbourhood supervisors
- Etc.
SPVM also has about 1,000 civilian employees, as well as about 200 police cadets.
SPVM officers are members of the Fraternité des policiers et policières de la Ville de Montréal.
[edit] Operations
The SPVM covers an area of about 496 square kilometres and 1,800,000 residents of the Greater Montreal area.
There are 33 police stations that operate within four geographical regions: East, West, North and South.
Other units of the SPVM, include:
- Canine section
- Horse unit
- Nautical patrol
- Crisis management
- Strategic planning
- Emergency Response Team (SWAT)
- Forensics
- Etc.
[edit] Fleet
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- Chevrolet Impala
- Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor
- Ford Windstar
- Ford Freestar
- Chevrolet Venture
- Dodge Caravan
- Ford F450 bus
- Ford Explorer
- Chrysler Intrepid (Fairly rare, being phased out)
- Smart Fortwo
[edit] See also
- Sûreté du Québec
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Police officer
- Service de sécurité incendie de Montréal
- Corporation des Urgences Sante du Montreal Metropolitain
[edit] References
- ^ a b About the SPVM
[edit] External links
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