The headquarters of the Sûreté du Québec are located on Parthenais Street in Montreal's Sainte-Marie neighbourhood, and the service employs over 5,700 officers.

[7] The SQ is usually present in smaller, rural or suburban communities, and it is not usually visible on the streets of large urban centres like Montreal and Quebec City, whose own police departments must provide a wide range of services and operations by law.

[8] In addition, the SQ can provide technical assistance to Quebec's independent investigation unit (BEI) in any incident involving possible wrongdoing by another police department, such as deaths and serious injuries.

[9] On February 1, 1870, the Quebec provincial government created the Police provinciale du Québec[10] under the direction of its first commissioner, Judge Pierre-Antoine Doucet.

SQ Corporal Marcel Lemay was killed by gunfire in the initial raid (likely by friendly fire [citation needed]), and a 77-day standoff ensued.

The Sûreté du Québec admitted in August 2007 that they had used undercover police posing as protestors at the 2007 Montebello Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America meetings.

[14] Rank insignia of the Sûreté du Québec are contained on slip-on sleeves, worn on the epaulettes of uniform jacket or shirt shoulders.

[21] Cars: Trucks: Motorcycles: Special Vehicles: Air: Sea: Wild: The standard-issue weapon of the SQ is the Glock pistol, loaded in 9×19mm Parabellum caliber.

Gtechna is primarily a citations issuance and management software developer which integrates mission critical technologies such as Licence Plate Recognition (LPR) to streamline the enforcement of moving and parking violations.

The Sûreté du Québec has become well known internationally through the fictional Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues, created by Canadian author Louise Penny, who lives in Quebec.