Service de police de la Ville de Québec
The Service de police de la Ville de Québec is the police force of Quebec City, Quebec.
History
Quebec had policing since 1651, but a modern force was not formed in 1843 under the leadership of Robert Henry Russell.The current force was created for five separate police forces merging into the existing Quebec City police force in 2002.
Operations
SPVQ operations consists of four stations covering 6 Boroughs:| Station Address | Borough Served | Notes |
| 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, 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.
Organization
- Chief of Police/Director
- Associate Director
- Lieutenant
- Constable
List of Director/Chief 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
- 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 - : Robert Pigeon