Defence Police Corps (Royal Canadian Gendarmerie)


 * Not to be confused with the Gendarmerie's Military Police Corps, the main provost (military police) of the Canadian Armed Forces.

The Defence Police Corps (French: Corps de police de la défense'') is a corps of the Royal Canadian Gendarmerie (RCG), which functions as the police force for the civilian administration of the Canadian Armed Forces, namely the Department of National Defence (DND), the civilian government ministry overseeing the Canadian military.

As the DND is staffed by civilian personnel alongside much of the logistical and administrative offices of the Canadian Forces, the Defence Police Corps abides by the Parliament of Canada's National Police Act and during peacetime must behave as any other civilian law enforcement agency. During peacetime, the Defence Police Corps, in spite of policing the civilian establishment of the defence sector, come under the jurisdiction of Public Security Canada, alongside several other corps of the Gendarmerie. In wartime, by contrast, all Gendarmerie corps, including the Defence Police Corps, come under the jurisdiction of the Department of National Defence.