Quebec City Police Service

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City of Quebec Police Service Service de police de la Ville de Quebec
Patch of the SPVQ, worn on officers’ uniforms
Abbreviation	SPVQ
Agency overview
Formed	May 2, 1843 (historic) 2002
Annual budget	$121,417,617 (2018)
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	Urban agglomeration of Quebec City, CAN
Size	485.77 km2 (187.56 sq mi)
Population	531,902
Operational structure
Headquarters	275, rue de la Maréchaussée, Quebec City
Sworn members	800
Unsworn members	200
Elected officer responsible	François Bonnardel, Ministre de la Sécurité publique
Agency executive	Robert Pigeon, Chief of Police (Director)
Facilities
Police Posts	4
Website
ville.quebec.qc.ca/citoyens/police/

The Service de police de la Ville de Québec (French for Quebec City Police Service) is the municipal police force of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, and the neighbouring municipalities in the urban agglomeration of Quebec City.

Quebec has had some level of policing since 1651, but a modern force was not established until 1843 under the leadership of Robert Henry Russell.^[1]

The current force was created from the merger of five separate police forces into the existing Quebec City police force in 2002.^[1]

SPVQ operations consists of four stations covering 6 Boroughs:

There are plans to reduce the number of stations to two:

• consolidate stations serving La Cité-Limoilou, Les Rivières, Charlesbourg, Beauport and La Haute-Saint-Charles into one station out from Lebourgneuf with a smaller sub station l'édifice F.-X. Drolet de Saint-Roch serving the city centre.
• Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge would maintain a dedicate station.

• 1843 - 1858 : Robert Henry Russell
• 1858 - 1866 : Jean-Baptiste Bureau
• 1880 - 1895 : Léon P. Vohl
• 1903 - 1936 : Émile Trudel
• 1938 - 1942 : Adolphe-Stephen Thomas dit Bigaouette (1887-1942)
• 1950 - 1965 : Roger Lemire
• 1965 : Aimé Guillemette
• 1965 - 1968 : Gérard Girard
• 1968 - 1972 : Joseph-Alphonse Matte
• 1973 - 1980 : Jean-Charles Vanhoutte
• 1980 - 1985 : Robert Vézina
• 1985 - 1996 : Normand Bergeron
• 1997 - 2001 : Alexandre Matte
• 2001 - 2006 : Daniel Langlais
• 2007 - 2011 : Serge Bélisle
• 2011 - 2016 : Michel Desgagné
• 2016 - 2021 : Robert Pigeon
• 2021 -  : Denis Turcotte

• Service de protection contre les incendies de Québec

• Le Service de police de la Ville de Québec