Serge Barbeau

Serge Barbeau received a master’s degree in public administration from the National School of Public Administration (1992). He also completed studies in communications, labor relations, crisis management, project management and organizational development. He is a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) from the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS), a Certified Professional in Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCIP) from the Critical Infrastructure Institute of Canada, and a Certified Port facility security officer (PFSO). Mr. Barbeau was also trained in predictive profiling and is fluently bilingual (French—English).

Mr. Barbeau is a PECB Certified Trainer and a PECB Certified ISO 37001 Lead Implementer.

Since September 2001, Mr. Barbeau is working as a senior consultant with companies and government agencies. He acted as a consultant in the field of national security in Canada and abroad. In 2003, he participated in a Canadian mission aimed at initiating the reconstruction of the Afghanistan National Police. He acted as a management consultant to senior managers from the Afghan Police. Since May 2005, Mr. Barbeau has supervised major security projects in Canada, Algeria, Haiti, Morocco, Bolivia and Iraq. From August 2010 to April 2012, Mr. Barbeau was project director for the development of the National police academy of Haiti. As project director he was responsible for overseeing all the aspects of this major project funded by the Canadian agency for international development. He acted as a special advisor to the director of the Haitian National Police for staff management training and course development while directing the construction of the training facilities and coordinating police development with the MINUSTAH the UN security force for Haiti.

Mr. Barbeau was a member of the Sûreté du Québec (the Quebec provincial police force) for 31 years. He occupied different positions from middle to senior management for 25 years. He was director general of the police force at the time he left the Sûreté du Québec in 1998. After his retirement from the SQ, he was appointed executive vice-president of the Quebec Parole Board, position that he held for over 3 years.

In 2001, Serge Barbeau left the Parole board to devote his time to consulting and teaching at the University of Montréal where he was an adjunct professor in the Continuing education faculty within the Applied Management program for Police and Security. Mr. Barbeau is a laureate of the Award of excellence in teaching, which was awarded by the University of Montréal’s continuing education faculty for the 2003–2004 academic year.

As a consultant in critical infrastructure protection, and antibribery management systems, Mr. Barbeau has been active in major security projects either as project manager or senior consultant. He participated in many security audits in international airports, maritime ports, college campuses, courthouses and transit systems infrastructure.

Mr. Barbeau authored numerous crisis management plans, emergency management plans, audit reports, airport and port security plans, as well as training documents in French and English. He also acted as the course instructor on critical infrastructure protection, anti-bribery management systems, predictive profiling, crisis management and incident command system courses in both languages.

Mr. Barbeau has been actively involved in crime prevention for over 30 years. He was on different national and provincial committees. He was namely a member of the executive committee “Task Force on Crime Prevention” (1992) and member of the Special Advisory Board for a National Strategy for Community Safety and Crime Prevention (1993). In 2005, he was elected to the Board of directors of the Réseau Intersection Corporation whose mission is to develop, translate into action and promote the Quebec community-policing model based on mobilizing community groups and citizens to prevent crime and secure neighborhoods.

On many occasions, Mr. Barbeau was invited as lecturer on various subjects such as management of public corporations, crisis management, emergency response management, public communications and crime prevention. He also contributed directly to several works in the field such as “Le Guide de consultation POLICE – CITOYENS” (2006), “Une police professionnelle de type communautaire” (1998) under the guidance of André Normandeau Ph.D., criminologist at the University of Montreal, “Prévention de la criminalité et relations communautaires” (1991) by Martine Fourcaudot and Lionel Prévost and “Interventions policières” (1989) by Lionel Prévost.