| | - Quebec Public Security, Bylaw, and Municipal Enforcement
- Quebec Public Security is similiar in many ways to Bylaw Departement found in anglo-Canadian Provinces. Agencies are either staffed by civic employees, or by contract with various security agencies dependant on the desires of the municipality each agency serves. Depending on the needs or desires of the community council, agency officers may be armed with batons and pepper spray or not; have red emergency lights or amber. Officer roles include bylaw enforcement, parking enforcement, residential patrols, stray animal collection, traffic control and other non-emergency tasks.
A brief history of Public Security. Prior to 1972 there were 29 municipalities on the Island of Montreal. All but two had their own police department with the other two contracting services from neighboring municipalities. In 1972 the Montreal Urban Community (M.U.C.) was formed to amalgamate certain services across the island, such as police and public transit. The municipalities still remained independant but paid into the MUC for the common services. The MUC Police Department was created to provide one single police service for the entire island. The police officers from the newly defunct departments were amalgamated into the MUC Police. With one large meptropolitain police service the MUC Police started to re-assign police officers from the suburbs into the downtown and other areas where the crime rate was obviously higher. This left the suburbs with fewer police officers than they had before. And so, some suburban municipalities, mostly on the west island, created their own Public Security departments to compensate for the reduced police presence in their communities.
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