Sûreté du Québec

La Sûreté du Québec (French for "Quebec Security" or "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 is often known informally in English as the Quebec Provincial Police. 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. It is the only agency out of the twelve Canadian provinces to combine the duties of both provincial police and provincial sheriff; the eleven other provinces each have a separate provincial police and provincial sheriff service.

The Sûreté du Québec is headquartered at 1050 Rue des Rocailles, Quebec City, Quebec. The service has a total of 36,768 employees, 29,204 of whom are sworn officers and 7566 are civilian employees. It is the second-largest provincial police and provincial sheriff service in Canada by total number of employees. The Sûreté du Québec answers to the Attorney General of Quebec, a senior member of the Cabinet of the Premier of Quebec.