Quebec Police Arrests Former Montreal Officer Suspected of Leaking Information

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Provincial police of Quebec, Sûreté du Québec, recently arrested a retired Montreal police investigator, Benoît Roberge, over the weekend due to suspicion that he leaked confidential information to criminal bikers. Roberge had spent his entire career combating organized crime, working in a police unit that handled organized crime until his retirement.

50-year-old Mr. Roberge is now facing charges of obstructing justice, breach of trust by a public officer and participation in the activities of criminal organization. According to his indictment, the offences took place in St-Denis-de-Brompton, near Sherbrooke, between January, 2010, and this month. The document says that Mr. Roberge allegedly leaked vital information from on-going police investigations to the Hells Angels biker gang in exchange for cash.

During a news conference, Inspector Michel Forget stated that “this situation is taken very seriously.” He explained that the former police investigator was taken in custody from Montreal’s South Shore on Saturday night, where he was found with another member associated with organized crime, prompting the police to bring in the tactical squad. Insp. Forget elucidated saying that “let’s be clear … all attempts of infiltration by organized crime will be repressed.” He alleged that “we’ve reached the point in Quebec that we’re destabilizing the structures of organized crime. They will try by any means to harm our investigations. At no time will any police organization tolerate attempts to infiltrate them,” adding that “we will continue to keep up the pressure on organized crime, regardless of their attempts or their tactics to hurt us.”