Sûreté

[syr-tey]

noun

1. la the criminal investigation department of the French government.

Example Sentences

Inspector Armand Gamache, the courtly French Canadian hero of 18 bestselling novels by author Louise Penny, has solved numerous grisly crimes throughout his career with the Sûreté du Québec.

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Marcel Savard, a former deputy chief and 40-year veteran of the Sûreté du Québec, Quebec’s provincial police force, for which Gamache works in the books, said he appreciated the inspector’s relentlessness and humanity.

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They first worked together, when Gamache was head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec, on the murder of an addict and sex worker named Clotilde Arsenault.

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The Montreal Gazette, citing reporting from the French language Sûreté du Québec, described the event as a "targeted shooting."

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As head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec, this is an unusual request for him, but he readily agrees.

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