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 The School’s mission on the international level |
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Within its mission, the School promotes, facilitates and plans exchanges of expertise with other provinces and countries, and in particular, encourages the contribution of Quebec’s specialists to international exchange missions regarding police trainings.
To achieve this, the School as chosen to integrate, in its strategic planning, specific objectives allowing meeting this aspect of its mission. The School wants to do what is necessary in order to access information resources available on the national level, as well as on the international level, to contribute with international partners to the research of concrete solutions to the security challenges and to reinforce the coordination efforts on the international level regarding police training in the prevention and intervention field.
Policy of international cooperation (French, pdf format)
| National and international exchanges |
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Last couple of years have been particularly productive regarding national and international exchanges. First, the major event which occurred at the School in September 2008, marked the creation of the Réseau international francophone de formation policière FRANCOPOL. Furthermore, the biennial exchange project of trainers with the Académie de police de Jurbise of Belgium has been achieved. Finally, several exchange missions have been made in the last few years, thus allowing the School to see different ways of dealing regarding police training strategies, like with the Regina RCMP, with the Ontario Police College at Aylmer in Ontario and with the École nationale d’administration pénitentiaire (ENAP) of Agen in France. Moreover, the School has welcomed in 2009-2010 members from the following delegations: Gendarmerie nationale française, Camerounian police, Sûreté publique de Monaco and Police fédérale belge.
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2009-2010 |
2008-2009 |
2007-2008 |
2006-2007 |
| Outside Quebec but in Canada missions |
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3 |
0 |
1 |
| Outside Canada missions |
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7 |
7 |
3 |
| Foreign delegations welcomed |
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3* |
14 |
10 |
| Training of foreign police officers |
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1 |
2 |
2 |
*In 2008, the School has hosted the Congrès international FRANCOPOL with about 200 participants coming from 13 countries. For this event, the School had planned visits and tourism activities in order to show them Quebec’s characteristics. This explains the decrease in the number of foreign delegations welcomed by the School.
The School has established some new agreements in 2008-2009, three on an international level. On one hand, regarding the hosting of the FRANCOPOL Conference, the School has worked with the Organisation international de la Francophonie and with its financial contribution allowed for about 10 representatives of Southern and Eastern countries to participate to this huge event. On the other hand, the School has become a member of the FRANCOPOL network. Finally, the agreement with the Académie provincial de police Émilien Vaes of Belgium has been implemented.
| Bilateral activities |
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The School wants to bring its contribution to the security of Quebec by enriching the knowledge and enlarging its expertise regarding policing and establishing an international network with police training schools or police training management.
Académie provinciale de police Émilien Vaes, Jurbise – Belgium
June 14, 2002, an agreement of an unlimited duration between the Académie provincial de police Émilien Vaes and the École nationale de police du Québec, has been signed. Since then, there was several exchanges between both schools. The objectives of the exchanges are the following:
- Organize visits on both sides;
- Cooperate on the training content;
- Exchange pedagogical methods and publications;
- Eventually exchange trainers;
- Manage the cultural diversity in the general and ethnic level;
- Establish community policing in the training field.
École nationale de police de Saint-Malo
The agreement between the École nationale de police de Saint-Malo and the École de police du Québec has been signed Mai 16, 2008. The first visit of the Saint-Malo delegation should be welcomed in fall 2010.
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FRANCOPOL - Réseau international francophone de formation policière
In times of globalization, the creation of international partnership has become essential for police communities around the world. It is in that spirit that the École nationale de police du Québec, the Sûreté du Québec and the Police nationale française have established the bases of an international French network of police training. FRANCOPOL has been officially launched in September 2008, with the presence of 200 representatives of about 12 countries of the Francophonie and other French speaking countries (like West Indies, Africa and Eastern Europe), Quebec’s government and several partners of the public security, education and international relation fields.
The main objective of the network is to disseminate the best practices and innovative solutions in order that all members can benefit from it, and also improve it, if possible. By preserving the knowledge beyond the passing persons, the network ensures the duration of international relationships and contributes to improve the quality of the training and policing practice in Quebec.
Implication de l’École nationale de police du Québec
Mr. Pierre Saint-Antoine, Director of the Bureau des affaires institutionnelles et des communications of the School, is a member of the Bureau international and the Comité de direction de FRANCOPOL. He has been elected as treasurer. Because of that, all the elements regarding the financing and the management of the exchange site (CFIS) and the technological support are dealt with at the School.
The Chief Executive Officer of the School is attending at the FRANCOPOL’s Conseil des sages.
- Carrefour Francopol de l'information et du savoir
The occurrence of FRANCOPOL in the portrait of the international French police training will be beneficial for the policing practice development. It is with this objective in mind that the ENPQ has established an innovative service in the police and security field: the Carrefour de l’information et du savoir which is transformed for the needs of the network, in Carrefour FRANCOPOL de l’information et du savoir.
It is a virtual library that gives access to databases and references related to the police and security field, a helpful source of information for the French police community and its partners, the CFIS is there to bring the players of the police community closer and to favour expertise exchanges. The School gives FRANCOPOL’s members, access to this new exchange platform and to the sharing of information which will be, among others:
- Specialized documents;
- Training documents;
- Guides for better practices;
- Documents to be exchanged between trainers;
- Etc.
- Comités techniques FRANCOPOL
A technical comity has been made with a few international experts working on a thematic based on interests for the network. International technical comities are the foundation of practices development. They allow experts to share in order to solve security problems on strategic matter for their organization. The School attends on the following technical comities:
- Competency-based approach;
- CFIS – documentalists;
- Deontology, ethics, judgment;
- Child’s rights;
- Studies and researches;
- Police and citizens;
- Profile of police recruits;
- Road safety;
- Use of force or constraint.
- Next steps of the FRANCOPOL development
Challenges FRANCOPOL will have over the next years are numerous. Main ones are: the consolidation of the network, the establishment of the strategic planning, the development of a thesaurus, the development of technical comities, the selection of thematics and priority exchange subjects and the recruitments of members.
SPPADS (State & Provincial Police Academy Directors)
The School has been a member of the SPPADS for several years. The objective of the organisation is to share good practices between police school directors of Canada and United States.
Canadian Police Knowledge Network
The school has a seat at the Board of Directors of the CPKN since 2008. The Canadian Police Knowledge Network is a non-profit organization, the first supplier of online training for Canadian police. Working with specialists of police schools and police services of Canada, like the École nationale de police du Québec, CPKN offers online training to meet the needs of police forces.
