Canada Sheriff Service

The Canada Sheriff Service (CSS) is one of two federal Canadian law enforcement agencies for which the Solicitor General of Canada is responsible, the other being Corrections 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, and to transport federal prisoners to, from and between courts, prisons, jails and all other facilities, and protecting senior leaders of the federal government including the President of Canada and the Prime Minister. 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.

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 via the Minister of Public Security, serves as the main federal police force, and also contracts with the federal capital of Ottawa and the six territorial governments and their municipalities to provide policing services, and also handles law enforcement investigations and operations elsewhere in Canada which come under federal jurisdiction. Similarly, the Canada Sheriff Service contracts with the five territories and Ottawa to provide local sheriff services, while Canada's 12 provinces each have their own sheriff service and regular provincial police.