The Service de police de la Ville de Québec ( French for ''Quebec City Police Service'') is the

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police force of

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, Canada, and the neighbouring municipalities in the

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History

Quebec has had some level of policing since 1651, but a modern force was not established until 1843 under the leadership of

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. 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: 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.

Organization

Ranks: *

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* Associate Director * inspector * Capitain *

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* Sergeant/ * Constable

List of directors and chiefs of police

*1843 - 1858 :

*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

References

External links

Le Service de police de la Ville de Québec