Rights and safety at work
Criminal record check in Quebec: types, fees and the link with police work
The Sûreté du Québec's three checks, the SPVM's services, RCMP fingerprints, published fees and section 115 of the Police Act.
All articles for police officers in Quebec
Training, salary, jobs and workplaces for police officers in Quebec, from official sources.
Rights and safety at work
Quebec Police Act: what it says to a police officer, title by title
The Police Act (P-13.1) in plain language: the police academy, police forces, hiring conditions, ethics, the BEI and the role of the minister.
Workplaces
BEI: Quebec's independent investigations bureau and the police officer
The Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes investigates deaths and serious injuries during police interventions. Its mandate, its investigators and its 2024-2025 figures.
Rights and safety at work
Police ethics in Quebec: the code, the Commissioner and complaints against a police officer
What the Quebec police code of ethics says, who it covers, how to file a complaint with the Commissioner and what sanctions the Tribunal can impose.
Workplaces
Sûreté du Québec: phone numbers to reach a police officer
Emergency: 911. Non-emergency: your local station's number. 310-4141 and *4141 have been withdrawn since June 2026.
Jobs
Sûreté du Québec: police officer recruitment, step by step
Candidate profiles, criteria, process steps, posting and probation: what the Sûreté du Québec publishes about its police recruitment, and what it does not publish.
Workplaces
Military police in Canada: organization, jurisdiction and oversight of military police officers
Who leads Canada's military police officers, where their detachments are in Quebec and how to file a complaint against one of them.
Workplaces
Contrôle routier Québec: mandate, inspection stations and the difference with a police officer
Contrôle routier Québec monitors heavy vehicles, taxis and buses. The SAAQ agency moves to Public Security on January 1, 2027.
Jobs
Military police officer (commissioned) and Reserve: two other ways to become a military police officer
The officer commands, the reservist serves part time. Required diploma, training in Saint-Jean and Borden, official pay as of April 1, 2025.
Training
Becoming a highway safety officer: jobs, selection and training
Contrôle routier Québec hires first, then trains. The selection steps, training at the École nationale de police and the swearing-in, without going through the police officer path.
Training
RCMP police training: Depot Division in Regina and the physical test
The 26 weeks of the Cadet Training Program in Regina, life in a troop, the allowance and the events of the RCMP physical test.
Salary
RCMP police officer salary: the scale rank by rank
An RCMP constable earns $71,191 to $115,350 as of April 1, 2024. The rates for corporal, sergeant and staff sergeant, the allowances and the ranks.
Jobs
Highway safety officer: salary, powers and differences with a police officer
The highway safety officer is a peace officer of Contrôle routier Québec, not a police officer. Their powers, their 2026 salary, their training and what changes on January 1, 2027.
Jobs
Military police officer: role, training and pay in the Canadian Armed Forces
The military police officer is a peace officer of the Canadian Armed Forces. Their role, the enrolment requirements, training in Borden and the official pay.
Workplaces
GTI: the police tactical intervention group in Quebec
Which police forces have a tactical intervention group, what the Sûreté du Québec and the SPVM say about it, how a police officer gets in and what the Montreal agreement provides.
Salary
Police officer salary in Quebec: SQ, SPVM and RCMP
The pay scales of a police officer at the Sûreté du Québec, the SPVM and the RCMP, taken from the agreements and official pages, plus the median salary.
Workplaces
UPAC: working as a police officer at Quebec's anti-corruption unit
What UPAC is under the law, who works there, how a police officer becomes an investigator there, where jobs are posted and how to make a report.
Jobs
Becoming an RCMP police officer: recruitment, training and salary
Admission requirements, seven selection steps, 26 weeks of training in Regina and the constable's salary: RCMP recruitment seen from Quebec.
Training
Police Technology: the DEC, the CEGEPs and admission to become a police officer
The DEC in Police Technology (310.A0) lasts 3 years and is offered in 15 institutions. Here are admission, the R score, the AEC and the next step at the École nationale de police.
Training
How to become a police officer in Quebec: the path step by step
Police Technology at CEGEP, 15 weeks at the École nationale de police du Québec, then hiring: the steps, the physical test and the 2026-2027 fees.
Training
ENPQ: the Nicolet police academy, to become a police officer
The École nationale de police du Québec, in Nicolet: its role under the law, the 15-week program, the admission requirements, the tests and the 2026-2027 fees.