The  Municipal Police in Canada  is the police service at the municipal level. It sometimes takes the name of police department or Service de Police de la Ville (Province of Quebec) 1 .

In Canada, the Criminal Code is a federal responsibility. While each province takes care of the civil code, and the cities deal with municipal laws and regulations 2 .

The main municipalities of the country as well as the Aboriginal reserves have their own police service, ensuring the complete service of the patrol-gendarmerie (maintaining public order, road safety, responding to emergency calls) and having the mandate to enforce all levels of law within its territory. (depending on these abilities)

Thus, municipal police officers are an integral part of the police forces in Canada and are repositories of public authority in the same way as national and provincial police officers. Note that in Canada municipal police are armed.

All depending on the size of their city, municipalities are required to provide different levels of police service. For example, cities like Toronto or Montreal must provide a very complete police force with the same capacities on its territory as the provincial or federal police. Conversely, small towns are obliged to provide only more limited services.

Municipalities that do not have a police force must retain the police patrol services of their provinces, namely Quebec (with the  SQ ), Ontario (with the OPP) and Newfoundland and Labrador (with the RNC) OR GRC at a cost according to their property wealth. These are mainly sparsely populated and often rural localities, but some medium-sized towns have nevertheless chosen to use them: For example; Drummondville (75,000 inhab.), Saint-Hyacinthe (55,000), Rimouski (47,000) and Victoriaville (45,000), etc[7].

Some small towns maintain their own police service, including Bromont, Mont-Tremblant and Thetford Mines[7]. When relatively serious crimes occur in areas already covered by municipal police (e.g. murder, offenses related to organized crime, child pornography, etc.), that is to say, beyond the jurisdiction of their police force — as defined by the Police Act and depending on the population level served, the provincial or federal police must take over. For example in the province of Quebec if a murder without imminent arrest occurs in a municipality of less than 250,000 inhabitants, it is the SQ which will investigate, even in fairly populous cities such as Lévis, Saguenay or Sherbrooke.