
Risques du métier
De 1874 à 2002, soixante-et-onze (71) policiers sont morts en devoir sur le territoire de l'île de Montréal. Il est intéressant de voir la progression des situations suscitant de tels drames au cours de cette période.
Ainsi, les policiers sont-ils passés du simple bâton au sabre, avant d’en arriver à l’arme à feu, pour se protéger et assurer notre sécurité. Toutefois, les circonstances ont peu changé à travers les décennies. Les meurtres et les accidents de toutes sortes se répartissent assez également au fil du temps. Évidemment, les accidents causés par une chute de cheval ou par une électrocution deviennent plus rares au milieu du 20ème siècle.
Ces événements tragiques, quoique faisant partie des risques du métier, demeurent toujours des épisodes éprouvants pour les policiers et les policières. Chaque événement suscite des manifestations de sympathie spontanée dans la communauté, et tous vivent la peine vécue par les proches de ces victimes. C’est pourquoi nous vous offrons ce bref rappel des circonstances qui ont mené à la perte de ces soixante-et-onze hommes et femmes des services de police de l'île de Montréal.

Benoît L'Écuyer

Alain Matte

Robert Tétreault

André Lalonde

Odette Pinard

Claude Desnoyers

Robert Larue

Yves Phaneuf

Richard Lagacé

Robert Baril

Claude St-Laurent

Jacinthe Fyfe

Pierre Beaulieu

Serge Laforest

Emmanuel Cloutier

Pierre Brulé

René Vallée

Gilles Beauvais

Aimé Pelletier

André Désilets

Richard Larente

Larry Loney

Jean-Guy Sabourin

Bernard Charlebois

Rhéal Brunet

Gilles Boutin

Stanley Howard Christie

Gilles Jean

Maurice Smith

Hilaire Blais

Denis Brabant

William Gurgurewicz

Marcel Lacombe

Fernand Vachet

Louis-Charles Houle

Paul Bourk

Clément Belval

Paul E. Duranleau

Maurice Trudeau

Henri Farmer

Paul-Émile Champagne

Adélard Allard

Lucien Bourgela

Adrien J. Lamarche

Patrick Keogh

Paul Beaucage

Joseph Philias Poirier

Napoléon Nadon

Alexandre Picard

Dollard Pelletier

Roger McGown

Léo Villeneuve

Jules M. Projean

Thomas Ellis

Armand Desjardins

Jean-Baptiste Beaudry

Aldéric Mayer

Thomas Chicoine

Wilfrid de la Durantaye

Honoré Bourdon

Jules Fortin

Daniel O'Connell

Enoch Guibeault

George Shea

Michael John O’Connell

John Beatty

John Malone

Alfred Baignet

Nelson Paquin

Claude Marineau

Claude Sarrazin