The Ministry of Public Security ( French: ''Ministère de la Sécurité publique'') is responsible for public safety and security in the province of

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. The ministry is in charge of the

Sûreté du Québec The (SQ; , ) is the State police, provincial police service for the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. There is no official English name, though the agency's name is sometimes translated as Quebec Provincial Police ...

, the provincial police force. The current minister in charge is François Bonnardel.

Ministers of Public Security

* Herbert Marx 1988 * Gil Rémillard 1988-1989 * Sam Elkas 1989-1990 *

Claude Ryan Claude Ryan (January 26, 1925 – February 9, 2004) was a Canadian journalist and politician. He was the director of the newspaper ''Le Devoir'' from 1964 to 1978, leader of the Quebec Liberal Party from 1978 to 1982, National Assembly of ...

1990-1994 * Robert Middlemiss 1994 * Serge Ménard 1994-1996 * Robert Perreault 1996-1997 * Pierre Bélanger 1997-1998 * Serge Ménard 1998-2003 * Normand Jutras 2002 * Jacques Chagnon 2003-2005 * Jacques P. Dupuis 2005-2010 *

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2010-2012 * Stéphane Bergeron 2012-2014 *

Lise Thériault Lise Thériault (born January 7, 1966) is a former Canadian politician. She is a former Member of the National Assembly of Quebec representing the riding of Anjou–Louis-Riel in Montreal. She was the Deputy Premier of Quebec and Minister for ...

2014-2016 * Martin Coiteux 2016-2018 *

Geneviève Guilbault Geneviève Guilbault (; born November 4, 1982) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in a by-election held in the electoral district Louis-Hébert on October 2, 2017. She is a member of the Coalition Ave ...

2018-2022 * François Bonnardel 2022-present

Solicitors General of Quebec

Prior to 2002, the ministry was under the Solicitor General (solliciteur général): * George Irvine 1867-1873 *

Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau (; November 9, 1840 – June 13, 1898), born in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, was a French-Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 7th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1892 to 1898. Life As a lawyer, he defe ...

1873-1874 * Auguste-Real Angers 1874-1876 *

George Barnard Baker George Barnard Baker (January 29, 1834 – February 9, 1910) was a Quebec lawyer and political figure. He was a Liberal-Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada representing Missisquoi from 1870 to 1874, from 1879 to 1887 and from ...

1876-1878 * Alexandre Chauveau 1878-1879 *

Honoré Mercier Honoré Mercier (October 15, 1840 – October 30, 1894) was a Canadian lawyer, journalist and politician in Quebec. He was the ninth premier of Quebec from January 27, 1887, to December 21, 1891, as leader of the Parti National or Quebec Libera ...

1879 * William Warren Lynch 1879-1881 *

Edmund James Flynn Edmund James Flynn (November 16, 1847 – June 7, 1927) was a Canadian lawyer, politician and the tenth premier of Quebec, from 1896 to 1897. Background Flynn, the son of Jacques Flynn and Elizabeth Tostevin, was born at Percé on Novembe ...

1884-1887 * Georges Duhamel 1887-1890 * Antoine Rivard 1950-1959 * Jacques Miquelon 1959-1960 * Claude Wagner 1964-1966 * Roy Fournier 1971-1972 * Fernand Lalonde 1975-1976 * Marc-André Bédard 1985 * Gerard Latulippe 1985-1987 * Herbert Marx 1987-1988

Provincial prisons in Quebec

* Centre de détention de Montréal (Prison Bordeaux) - Montréal, Quebec * Centre de détention Tanguay (Maison Tanguay) - Montréal, Quebec * Centre de détention de Rivière-des-Prairies - Rivière-des-Prairies, Quebec * Centre de détention de Saint-Jérôme - Saint-Jérôme, Quebec * Centre de détention de Québec - Québec, Quebec * Quartier cellulaire du Palais de Justice -

Longueuil, Quebec Longueuil () is a city in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of the Montérégie administrative region and the central city of the urban agglomeration of Longueuil. It sits on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River directly ...

* Palais de Justice de Montréal - Montréal, Quebec * Centre de détention de Laval -

Laval, Quebec Laval is a city in Quebec, Canada. It is in the southwest of the province, north of Montreal. It is the largest suburb of Montreal, the third-largest city in the province after Montreal and Quebec City, and the thirteenth largest city in Can ...

* Centre de détention de Amos -

Amos, Quebec Amos is a town (Quebec), town in northwestern Quebec, Canada, on the Harricana River. It is the seat of Abitibi Regional County Municipality. Amos is the main town on the Harricana River, and the smallest of the three primary towns — after Rou ...

* Centre de détention de Baie-Comeau -

Baie-Comeau, Quebec Baie-Comeau () is a city in the Côte-Nord region of the province of Quebec, Canada. It is located on the shores of the St. Lawrence River, and is the seat of Manicouagan Regional County Municipality. It is near the mouth of the Manicouagan Rive ...

* Centre de détention de Chicoutimi -

Saguenay, Quebec Saguenay ( , , ) is a city in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, on the Saguenay River, about north of Quebec City by overland route. It is about upriver and northwest of Tadoussac, located at the confluence with the St. ...

* Centre de détention de Havre-Aubert - Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec * Centre de détention de Hull -

Gatineau, Quebec Gatineau ( ; ) is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is located on the northern bank of the Ottawa River, directly across from Ottawa, Ontario. Gatineau is the largest city in the Outaouais administrative region of Quebec and is also par ...

* Centre de détention de New-Carlisle -

New Carlisle, Quebec New Carlisle () is a town in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of Quebec, Canada. It best known as the boyhood home of René Lévesque although he was born in Campbellton, New Brunswick. Its population is approximately 1,336, approxima ...

* Centre de détention de Rimouski -

Rimouski, Quebec Rimouski ( ; ) is a city in Quebec, Canada. Rimouski is located in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region, at the mouth of the Rimouski River. It has a population of 48,935 (as of 2021). Rimouski, whose motto is ''Legi patrum fidelis'' (Faithful to ...

* Centre de détention de Percé -

Percé, Quebec Percé () is a city located on the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, near the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula, in Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec, Canada. Percé, member of the association of Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec, is mainly ...

* Centre de détention de Roberval -

Roberval, Quebec Roberval () is a city on the south-western shore of Lac Saint-Jean in the Le Domaine-du-Roy Regional County Municipality of Quebec, Canada. With a population of 9,840 in the Canada 2021 Census, it is the fourth largest city on this lake after Alma ...

* Centre de détention de Sept-Îles -

Sept-Îles, Quebec Sept-Îles (, , ) is a city in the Côte-Nord region of eastern Quebec. Along with Brador, Quebec, Brador and Blanc-Sablon, Sept-Îles is one of the oldest places in the province. The population was 24,569 as of the 2021 Canadian census. The ...

* Centre de détention de Sherbrooke -

Sherbrooke, Quebec Sherbrooke ( , ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional count ...

* Centre de détention de Sorel - Sorel-Tracy, Quebec * Centre de détention de Trois-Rivières - Trois-Rivières, Quebec * Centre de détention de Valleyfield - Valleyfield, Quebec

References

External links

Official website

Public Security Public security or public safety is the prevention of and protection from events that could endanger the safety and security of the public from significant danger, injury, or property damage. It is often conducted by a state government to ensu ...

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