3 police officers on Montreal's South Shore suspended over drug trafficking allegations

CBC News

· Posted: May 09, 2025 6:37 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Three officers with a constabulary work connected Montreal's South Shore are nether probe implicit allegations they sold drugs for transgression biker gangs.

Radio-Canada has learned that the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) launched its probe respective months agone pursuing superior allegations involving 2 detective sergeants and a patrol serviceman from the Régie intermunicipale de constabulary Roussillon.

Roussillon is simply a determination municipality located conscionable southbound of Montreal, successful the Montérégie region.

SQ Capt. Benoit Richard, caput of communications, said Wednesday that peculiar investigators are gathering with constabulary officers and civilian unit successful transportation with the case.

The 3 officers person been suspended with pay. They person not yet been charged.

Police main Michel Guillemette told CBC News the officers successful question are experienced and were suspended Wednesday. He declined to remark connected the ongoing transgression investigation.

"I person fulfilled my responsibilities arsenic constabulary chief, and I privation to reassure the nationalist that they tin number connected professional, dedicated and committed officers. There is nary origin for concern," helium said.

Guillemette said the concern is not an casual 1 for his constabulary service.

A spokesperson for Quebec's nationalist information curate declined to remark truthful arsenic not to interfere with the investigation, but said, "these allegations successful nary mode bespeak the enactment done by the 15,000 constabulary officers crossed Quebec."

The Roussillon regional constabulary work covers 7 municipalities: Candiac, Delson, La Prairie, Saint-Constant, Saint-Mathieu, Saint-Philippe and Sainte-Catherine.