Quebec City Police Service
{{Short description|Municipal police force of Quebec City}}
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The Service de police de la Ville de Québec (French for Quebec City Police Service) is the municipal police force of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, and the neighbouring municipalities in the urban agglomeration of Quebec City.
History
Quebec has had some level of policing since 1651, but a modern force was not established until 1843 under the leadership of Robert Henry Russell.{{cite web |url=https://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/citoyens/police/apropos/organisation/historique.aspx |title=D'hier à aujourd'hui|lang=French|publisher=Le Service de police de la Ville de Québec |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408043947/https://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/citoyens/police/apropos/organisation/historique.aspx |archive-date=April 8, 2023}}
The current force was created from the merger of five separate police forces into the existing Quebec City police force in 2002.
Operations
SPVQ operations consists of four stations covering 6 Boroughs:
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| 275 Rue de la Maréchaussée | 1st Borough La Cité-Limoilou | Existing Capital area before 2002. |
| 2780 rue de la Faune | 2nd Borough Les Rivières 6th Borough La Haute-Saint-Charles | Previously served by police departments in Vanier (rest of Les Rivières was covered by SPVQ before 2002), Val-Bélair and Haute-Saint-Charles |
| 1130 route de l'Eglise | 3rd Borough Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge | Previous served by police departments for Sainte-Foy, Sillery |
| 4252 rue d'Orsainville | 4th Borough Charlesbourg 5th Borough Beauport | Previous served by police departments for Charlesbourg |
There are plans to reduce the number of stations to two:
- consolidate stations serving La Cité-Limoilou, Les Rivières, Charlesbourg, Beauport and La Haute-Saint-Charles into one station out from Lebourgneuf with a smaller sub station l'édifice F.-X. Drolet de Saint-Roch serving the city centre.
- Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge would maintain a dedicate station.
List of directors and chiefs of police
- 1843 - 1858 : Robert Henry Russell
- 1858 - 1866 : Jean-Baptiste Bureau
- 1880 - 1895 : Léon P. Vohl
- 1903 - 1936 : Émile Trudel
- 1938 - 1942 : Adolphe-Stephen Thomas dit Bigaouette (1887-1942)
- 1950 - 1965 : Roger Lemire
- 1965 : Aimé Guillemette
- 1965 - 1968 : Gérard Girard
- 1968 - 1972 : Joseph-Alphonse Matte
- 1973 - 1980 : Jean-Charles Vanhoutte
- 1980 - 1985 : Robert Vézina
- 1985 - 1996 : Normand Bergeron
- 1997 - 2001 : Alexandre Matte
- 2001 - 2006 : Daniel Langlais
- 2007 - 2011 : Serge Bélisle
- 2011 - 2016 : Michel Desgagné
- 2016 - 2021 : Robert Pigeon
- 2021 - : Denis Turcotte
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/citoyens/police/index.aspx Le Service de police de la Ville de Québec]
{{Quebec City}}
{{Law enforcement agencies in Canada}}
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