| Service de police de la Ville de Montréal Montréal Police Service |
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| Formed | 1865 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
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| Headquarters | Montreal |
| Sworn members | 4,600[1] |
| Unsworn members | 1,600[1] |
| Agency executive | Marc Parent, Director of Police |
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| Neighbourhood stations | 49 |
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The Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) (French for City of Montréal Police Service) is the police force for the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. With about 4,400 officers and 1,600 civilian staff, it is the second largest municipal police agency in Canada after the Toronto Police Service and second largest in the province behind the Sûreté du Québec.
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The force is led by Director of Police Marc Parent.
The rank structure and current strength of the force is:
Some of the police functions carried out by the service, include:
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.
The SPVM covers an area of about 496 square kilometres and 1,800,000 residents of the Greater Montreal area.
There are 49 police stations that operate within four geographical regions: East, West, North and South.
Other units of the SPVM, include:
The standard sidearm of the service is the Walther P99QA.
On 3 November 2005, the United Nations Human Rights Committee advised the Canadian government to allow an enquiry on the SPVM about its mass arrests tactic during political demonstrations.[2][3][4][5] The tactic is a rapid encirclement of as many protesters as possible regardless of how they may have conducted themselves during the demonstration, and is argued to be a violation of their fundamental rights.[6] According to Francis Dupuis-Déri, a political science professor at Université du Québec à Montréal, police officers employ this tactic because of a "deviance" radical political demonstrators pose to media, politicians and police officers themselves.[7] The SPVM was once again criticized in the aftermath of the August 10, 2008 riots, which started due to the shooting death of 18-year-old immigrant Fredy Alberto Villanueva by an officer who alleged that Villanueva had severely beaten his partner and he was trying to save her.[8]
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