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P-13.1 - Police Act
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SCHEDULE G
POLICE SERVICES ACCORDING TO THE LEVELS ESTABLISHED BY SECTION 70
To be able to fully achieve their missions, as defined in section 48 of the Police Act, and integrating the community police approach into their operational and management practices, police forces must provide the police services enumerated below, which correspond to their respective levels.
I. Level 1 includes the following services:
POLICING INVESTIGATIONS
• Round-the-clock patrol Subject to the obligations
• Response within a reasonable corresponding to higher levels, any
• time to any request for help criminal or penal offence under their
• from a citizen jurisdiction, in particular those
• Road patrolling relating to
• Enforcement of the Act • Kidnapping
respecting off-highway vehicles • Sexual assault
and off-road vehicle and • Assault (any type)
snowmobile trail patrol • Robbery
• Recreational boating safety • Breaking and entering
except on St. Lawrence River • Fire
• Escort for outsized vehicles • Auto theft
• Transportation of accused persons • Production, trafficking and
• Hit and run incidents possession of illicit drugs at local
• Prevention programs or street level
• Crime scene securing • Bawdy-houses and street prostitution
• Hostage taking or sniper • Bad cheques, credit card or debit
(preliminary validation and card fraud
sealed-off zone) • Scans (false pretence or false
statement)
• Theft and possession of stolen goods
• Offence-related property
• Motor vehicle accidents
• Mischief
• Reckless driving
• Impaired driving
Any investigation relating to incidents
such as:
• Human deaths (drowning,
suicide, etc.)
• Disappearances
• Runaways
EMERGENCY MEASURES SUPPORT SERVICES
• Peaceful crowd control • Crime analysis
• Rescue operations • Crime scene dusting and
• Forest search and rescue photography
• Emergency response to local • Criminal intelligence relating to
disaster persons, groups or phenomena
located in their territory and
control of sources
• Routine contribution to the Violent
Crime Linkage Analysis System
(ViCLAS) and to the Service de
renseignement criminel du Québec
(SRCQ)
• Detention
• Custody of exhibits
• Court liaison
• DNA sample collecting
• Warrant management and tracking of
individuals
• Records management
• Public affairs
• Québec Police Intelligence Centre
(QPIC) input and retrieval
• Internal affairs
• Telecommunications
• Technical equipment and use of force
instructor
• Breath analysis expert
II. Level 2 includes, in addition to the services listed for Level 1, the
following services:
INVESTIGATIONS
• Intrafamilial murder
• Criminal negligence causing death
• Attempted murder
• Aggravated sexual assault or sexual
assault with a weapon
• Fatal work injury
• Financial institution or armoured car
service robbery
• Street gang crime
• Fire involving fatality or injury
• Series of fires
• Major industrial or commercial fire
• Commercial or real estate fraud
• Illegal lottery
• Production, trafficking and
possession of illicit drugs involving
supplier of local or street dealers
• Freight theft
• Auto theft ring
EMERGENCY MEASURES SUPPORT SERVICES
• Intervention involving armed and • Special unit (barricaded suspect or
barricaded suspect (no shots potentially dangerous search or
fired, no hostages) arrest)
• Crowd control involving risk • Infiltration at bottom level of
of disturbance criminal organization
• Crime scene and criminal
identification expert
• Fire scene expert
• Reconstructionist (collision
investigation)
• Motor vehicle serial number
identification
III. Level 3 includes, in addition to the services listed for Level 2, the
following services:
INVESTIGATIONS
• Murder
• Infanticide
• Life-threatening kidnapping
• Extortion
• Fatal aircraft accident
• Proceeds of crime
• Production, trafficking and
possession of illicit drugs involving
high-level suppliers
• Gang crime corresponding to service
level
• Child pornography
• Death during intervention of other
police force anywhere in Québec
SUPPORT SERVICES
• Physical surveillance
• Database retrieval
• Infiltration at middle level of
criminal organization
• Forensic accounting
• Analysis of pure version statements
• Video interrogation support
• Dog team (drugs, guarding and
tracking)
IV. Level 4 includes, in addition to the services listed for Level 3, the
following services:
INVESTIGATIONS
• In cooperation with the Sûreté
du Québec, any offence committed
by criminal organizations operating
on a minimal scale throughout
Québec
EMERGENCY MEASURES SUPPORT SERVICES
• Crowd control involving high • Witness protection
risk of disturbance or riot in • Repentant witness control
cooperation with the Sûreté • Electronic surveillance
du Québec
V. Level 5 includes, in addition to the services listed for Level 4, the
following services:
POLICING INVESTIGATIONS
• Recreational boating safety, • Terrorist incident management
including St. Lawrence River • Importation of illicit drugs into
• Air surveillance Québec
• Weapons trafficking
• Computer data mischief or theft
• Extraprovincial kidnapping
• Pyramid selling
• Betting, bookmaking
EMERGENCY MEASURES SUPPORT SERVICES
• Helicopter operations • Underwater diving
• Crowd control involving high • Defusing and handling of explosives
risk of disturbance or riot (explosives experts)
• Intervention involving hostage(s) • Infiltration at top level of criminal
or barricaded and armed suspect organization
(shot fired) • Special weapons and tactics team
• Polygraph and hypnosis
• Dog team (explosives)
• Composite sketching
• Operations security intelligence
VI. Level 6 includes, in addition to the services listed for Level 5, the
following services:
INVESTIGATIONS
• Unusual criminal phenomena
• Murder or assault by predator
• Police cooperation to counter
organized crime
• Crime relating to state revenues,
security or integrity
• Series of fires at inter-regional
level
• Inter-regional, provincial or
extra-provincial auto theft ring
• Judicial, government or municipal
civil servant corruption
• Misappropriation of funds
• Inter-regional, provincial or
extra-provincial fraud ring
• Fraudulent securities transactions
• Crime within provincial or federal
detention centres
• Cybersurveillance
• International judicial cooperation
EMERGENCY MEASURES SUPPORT SERVICES
• Coordination of recovery • Protection of international VIPs
operations and maintenance of • Protection of National Assembly
order during emergencies or civil • State security investigations and
disturbances of provincial scope intelligence
• Security and integrity of government
computer systems
• ViCLAS coordination
• Behaviourism (profiling of criminals)
• Specialized criminal identification
• Centralized fingerprint database
• Interpol liaison
• QPIC management
• Permanent emergency service unit.
• Round-the-clock patrol Subject to the obligations
• Response within a reasonable corresponding to higher levels, any
• time to any request for help criminal or penal offence under their
• from a citizen jurisdiction, in particular those
• Road patrolling relating to
• Enforcement of the Act • Kidnapping
respecting off-highway vehicles • Sexual assault
and off-road vehicle and • Assault (any type)
snowmobile trail patrol • Robbery
• Recreational boating safety • Breaking and entering
except on St. Lawrence River • Fire
• Escort for outsized vehicles • Auto theft
• Transportation of accused persons • Production, trafficking and
• Hit and run incidents possession of illicit drugs at local
• Prevention programs or street level
• Crime scene securing • Bawdy-houses and street prostitution
• Hostage taking or sniper • Bad cheques, credit card or debit
(preliminary validation and card fraud
sealed-off zone) • Scans (false pretence or false
statement)
• Theft and possession of stolen goods
• Offence-related property
• Motor vehicle accidents
• Mischief
• Reckless driving
• Impaired driving
Any investigation relating to incidents
such as:
• Human deaths (drowning,
suicide, etc.)
• Disappearances
• Runaways
EMERGENCY MEASURES SUPPORT SERVICES
• Peaceful crowd control • Crime analysis
• Rescue operations • Crime scene dusting and
• Forest search and rescue photography
• Emergency response to local • Criminal intelligence relating to
disaster persons, groups or phenomena
located in their territory and
control of sources
• Routine contribution to the Violent
Crime Linkage Analysis System
(ViCLAS) and to the Service de
renseignement criminel du Québec
(SRCQ)
• Detention
• Custody of exhibits
• Court liaison
• DNA sample collecting
• Warrant management and tracking of
individuals
• Records management
• Public affairs
• Québec Police Intelligence Centre
(QPIC) input and retrieval
• Internal affairs
• Telecommunications
• Technical equipment and use of force
instructor
• Breath analysis expert
II. Level 2 includes, in addition to the services listed for Level 1, the
following services:
INVESTIGATIONS
• Intrafamilial murder
• Criminal negligence causing death
• Attempted murder
• Aggravated sexual assault or sexual
assault with a weapon
• Fatal work injury
• Financial institution or armoured car
service robbery
• Street gang crime
• Fire involving fatality or injury
• Series of fires
• Major industrial or commercial fire
• Commercial or real estate fraud
• Illegal lottery
• Production, trafficking and
possession of illicit drugs involving
supplier of local or street dealers
• Freight theft
• Auto theft ring
EMERGENCY MEASURES SUPPORT SERVICES
• Intervention involving armed and • Special unit (barricaded suspect or
barricaded suspect (no shots potentially dangerous search or
fired, no hostages) arrest)
• Crowd control involving risk • Infiltration at bottom level of
of disturbance criminal organization
• Crime scene and criminal
identification expert
• Fire scene expert
• Reconstructionist (collision
investigation)
• Motor vehicle serial number
identification
III. Level 3 includes, in addition to the services listed for Level 2, the
following services:
INVESTIGATIONS
• Murder
• Infanticide
• Life-threatening kidnapping
• Extortion
• Fatal aircraft accident
• Proceeds of crime
• Production, trafficking and
possession of illicit drugs involving
high-level suppliers
• Gang crime corresponding to service
level
• Child pornography
• Death during intervention of other
police force anywhere in Québec
SUPPORT SERVICES
• Physical surveillance
• Database retrieval
• Infiltration at middle level of
criminal organization
• Forensic accounting
• Analysis of pure version statements
• Video interrogation support
• Dog team (drugs, guarding and
tracking)
IV. Level 4 includes, in addition to the services listed for Level 3, the
following services:
INVESTIGATIONS
• In cooperation with the Sûreté
du Québec, any offence committed
by criminal organizations operating
on a minimal scale throughout
Québec
EMERGENCY MEASURES SUPPORT SERVICES
• Crowd control involving high • Witness protection
risk of disturbance or riot in • Repentant witness control
cooperation with the Sûreté • Electronic surveillance
du Québec
V. Level 5 includes, in addition to the services listed for Level 4, the
following services:
POLICING INVESTIGATIONS
• Recreational boating safety, • Terrorist incident management
including St. Lawrence River • Importation of illicit drugs into
• Air surveillance Québec
• Weapons trafficking
• Computer data mischief or theft
• Extraprovincial kidnapping
• Pyramid selling
• Betting, bookmaking
EMERGENCY MEASURES SUPPORT SERVICES
• Helicopter operations • Underwater diving
• Crowd control involving high • Defusing and handling of explosives
risk of disturbance or riot (explosives experts)
• Intervention involving hostage(s) • Infiltration at top level of criminal
or barricaded and armed suspect organization
(shot fired) • Special weapons and tactics team
• Polygraph and hypnosis
• Dog team (explosives)
• Composite sketching
• Operations security intelligence
VI. Level 6 includes, in addition to the services listed for Level 5, the
following services:
INVESTIGATIONS
• Unusual criminal phenomena
• Murder or assault by predator
• Police cooperation to counter
organized crime
• Crime relating to state revenues,
security or integrity
• Series of fires at inter-regional
level
• Inter-regional, provincial or
extra-provincial auto theft ring
• Judicial, government or municipal
civil servant corruption
• Misappropriation of funds
• Inter-regional, provincial or
extra-provincial fraud ring
• Fraudulent securities transactions
• Crime within provincial or federal
detention centres
• Cybersurveillance
• International judicial cooperation
EMERGENCY MEASURES SUPPORT SERVICES
• Coordination of recovery • Protection of international VIPs
operations and maintenance of • Protection of National Assembly
order during emergencies or civil • State security investigations and
disturbances of provincial scope intelligence
• Security and integrity of government
computer systems
• ViCLAS coordination
• Behaviourism (profiling of criminals)
• Specialized criminal identification
• Centralized fingerprint database
• Interpol liaison
• QPIC management
• Permanent emergency service unit.
As of 24 July 2008, the levels of police services are determined in the Regulation respecting the police services that municipal police forces and the Sûreté du Québec must provide according to their level of jurisdiction (chapter P-13.1, r. 6).
