Policing in Canada

Drawing on both the academic field and homeland security practices, this book addresses the essential themes in the study of policing: its origin, theorization and structure. It focuses on the public police in Canada, making it a unique and original perspective. It adopts a critical approach to the fundamental aspects of policing, including patrol, investigation, intelligence, private policing, and transnational policing. It also highlights the issues of legitimacy and image management, as well as the contemporary challenges organizations and individuals face. Reflecting the authors’ background, this book brings a criminological perspective to the study of Canadian policing while remaining r

Grégory Gómez del Prado has been a police officer with the Quebec Provincial Police (Sûreté du Québec) for over 20 years. He has held various positions, including patrol officer, public relations officer, criminal investigator, and intelligence specialist. He has gained international field experience through his deployments in Ukraine, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. Alongside his policing career, he has taught at the Université de Montréal as a lecturer in criminology and police studies for over 15 years. He holds a doctorate in criminology from the Université de Montréal, and his fields of interest are terrorism and extremism studies, the phenomenon of violence, and the structure and or

Drawing on both the academic field and homeland security practices, this book addresses the essential themes in the study of policing: its origin, theorization and structure. It focuses on the public police in Canada, making it a unique and original perspective. It adopts a critical approach to the fundamental aspects of policing, including patrol, investigation, intelligence, private policing, and transnational policing. It also highlights the issues of legitimacy and image management, as well as the contemporary challenges organizations and individuals face. Reflecting the authors’ background, this book brings a criminological perspective to the study of Canadian policing while remaining rooted in its day-to-day practice. As such, it will appeal to those interested in the workings of traditional policing and those wishing to explore the more complex aspects of policing in society.