Service de police de la Ville de Montréal
| Service de police de la Ville de Montréal | |
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| Common name | Montreal Police Service |
| Abbreviation | SPVM |
Logo of the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | March 15, 1843 |
| Annual budget | C$587 million (2014) |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
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| Headquarters | 1441 Saint Urbain Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Sworn members | 4,600 (2009) |
| Unsworn members | 1,600 (2009) |
| Elected officer responsible | Martin Coiteux, Ministre de la Sécurité publique |
| Agency executive | Philippe Pichet, Director of Police |
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| Neighborhood Stations | 33 |
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| www.spvm.qc.ca/ | |
The Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) (French for Montreal Police Service) is the police force for the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada and the neighboring communities in the Urban agglomeration of Montreal. With about 4,600 officers and 1,600 civilian staff, it is the second largest municipal police agency in Canada after the Toronto Police Service and second largest in the province behind the Sûreté du Québec.
The Montreal Police Service was created on March 15, 1843. At that time, there were 51 police officers in Montreal. The first officers did not wear uniforms. In order to be recognizable as police officers by civilians, the first uniforms were created in 1848. In 1853, they won the right to carry firearms in the performance of their duties.
In the early twentieth century, the Montreal Police Service counted 467 constables, inspectors and managers. The force was subdivided, as squads of morality and local departments were created.
The size of the police force remained roughly the same from the beginning of the century until 1930, when it hired more staff in the context of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. During the Great Depression, tens of thousands of workers lost their jobs and there was an increase in crime. In the late 1930s, the Montreal Police Service had about 1,500 employees.
Following the progress of scientific analysis, a mobile laboratory was created in 1957. It evolved and changed in the 1980s to become the technical section.
The Museum of the Montreal Police (French: Musée de la police de Montréal) was established in 1992 to preserve the history of the Montreal Police Service.
The following is a list of the Chiefs and Directors of the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal.
The force is led by Director of Police Philippe Pichet.
The rank structure and current strength of the force is:
Some of the police functions carried out by the service, include:
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