Public Security Corps (Royal Canadian Gendarmerie)

The Public Security Corps (RCG-PSC; French: Corps de la Sécurité publique, GRC-CSP) is the section of the Royal Canadian Gendarmerie (RCG) concerned with major law enforcement operations within the Canadian Republic's civilian population. It handles law enforcement operations and investigations which fall under federal jurisdiction, typically only those which are the most serious and which provide the most immediate and credible threat(s). The Public Security Corps also assists the RCMP, provincial police, and local police forces (county constabularies) with public security at major national and international events. The corps is also responsible for providing security details to the President and Prime Minister of Canada and other senior federal government officials, as well as visiting international diplomats.

The Public Security Corps has its headquarters at the RCG Armoury in Ottawa, and had a total of 22,433 enlisted or commissioned (military) personnel and 3340 civilian personnel. According to the National Police Act, in peacetime the Public Security Corps comes under the jurisdiction of Public Security Canada, while during wartime it comes under Department of National Defence (DND) jurisdiction.