Sûreté du Québec

La Sûreté du Québec (French for "Quebec Security [Service]"), normally left untranslated in English-language sources) is the provincial police force 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 bodies and security service.

In addition to its primary role of patrolling the province's urban centres, cities and towns, and rural areas, and providing local policing services to all districts and municipalities of Québec, la Sûreté also has directorates responsible for investigating serious crimes like rape, murder, kidnapping and narcotics trafficking, infiltration of organised crime groups via CIs, bugging, GPS, and other state-of-the-art vice squad tactics, and financial crimes and internal affairs (anti-corruption) investigations.

La Sûreté du Québec also has a directorate which functions as Québec's provincial sheriff service: in addition to bailiff services and maintaining security at provincial courthouses, the directorate is responsible for the transportation of prisoners and detainees between jails, prisons, courthouses and other institutions, the personal security of all judicial personnel, and the provision of plainclothes security details for senior provincial government officials, amongst other duties normally handled by a separate provincial sheriff service.