Canada Sheriff Service

The Canada Sheriff Service (CSS; French: Service du Chérif canadien, SCC) is one of three agencies of the Canadian federal government for which the Attorney General of Canada is responsible, alongside Corrections Canada and the Crown Prosecution Service of Canada. The Canada Sheriff Service is responsible for the security of all federal judicial buildings, institutions and personnel, providing plainclothes protection details to those in the federal justice system deemed at risk, transporting federal prisoners to, from and between courts, prisons, jails and all other facilities, and protecting the family, household and person of the President of Canada and the Prime Minister of Canada.

The Canada Sheriff Service is also the nation's leading expert service on national manhunts as well as capture of serial and/or spree killers via behaviour analysis. Its original function and to this day one of the most important is ensuring the smooth and unhampered operation of the federal judicial system as its enforcement arm. While the Canada Sheriff Service has full law enforcement powers in all parts of Canada, the primary federal agency in charge of regular policing is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), which answers to Public Security Canada, a federal executive department led by the Minister of Public Security and Solicitor General.