Sûreté du Québec

La Sûreté du Québec (French for "Quebec Security [Service]"), normally left untranslated in English-language sources) is the provincial police of the Canadian province of Québec. Sûreté is a French word which has traditionally been used in many francophone countries and regions to refer to the state's main law enforcement agency and security services. The Sûreté du Québec also functions as Quebec's provincial sheriff service, responsible for transporting prisoners and other detainees and providing plainclothes security details for senior provincial government, amongst other duties normally handled by a separate sheriff service.