Profile in Public Integrity: Robert Lafrenière

Authors

Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity, Columbia Law School

Document Type

Brief

Category

Profiles in Public Integrity

Publication Date

2016

Abstract

Robert Lafrenière is the Commissioner of Quebec’s Permanent Anti-Corruption Unit (l’Unité permanente anticorruption, or UPAC), which he has led since its creation in 2011. In early 2016, he was appointed to a second five-year term. Prior to UPAC, Lafrenière served for two years as Deputy Minister of Quebec’s Ministry of Public Safety (ministère de la Sécurité publique du Québec, or MSP). Earlier in his career, Lafrenière served in Quebec’s provincial police force (Sûreté du Québec), and taught policing at the Collège de Maisonneuve in Montreal.

Disciplines

Law

Recommended Citation

Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity, Profile in Public Integrity: Robert Lafrenière, (2016).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/public_integrity/88