Parliamentary Protective Service

Parliamentary Protective Service Service de protection parlementaire
Official emblem[a]
Abbreviation	PPS SPP
Agency overview
Formed	June 23, 2015[1]
Preceding agencies	Senate Protective Service House of Commons Security Services
Employees	~600 (2018)
Annual budget	CA$91,100,000[2]
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	Canada
Governing body	Parliament of Canada
Constituting instrument	Parliament of Canada Act
Operational structure
Elected officers responsible	Greg Fergus, Speaker of the House of Commons Raymonde Gagné, Speaker of the Senate
Agency executive	Chief Superintendent Larry Brookson, Acting Director
Website
pps.parl.ca

The Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS; French: Service de protection parlementaire, SPP) is the office of the Parliament of Canada which provides physical security within the Parliamentary Precinct in Ottawa, Ontario.

Policy direction is set by the speakers of the Senate and House of Commons.^[3] PPS provides physical security services to the Parliament of Canada (members of Parliament, senators, employees, visitors and buildings of the Parliamentary Precinct), and acts as a parliamentary entity. Through an agreement made between the speaker of the House of Commons, speaker of the Senate and minister of public safety, the PPS director is a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and controls and manages the organization's daily operations.^[4]

Parliamentary Protective Service is not a law enforcement agency, and its officers are not peace officers.^[5] They are, however, public officers which allows them to be exempt from various weapon restrictions.^[6]

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