Ensure Albertans have safe and secure communities in which to live, work and raise their families.

Our mission is to serve Albertans by ensuring safe and secure communities through effective policing, security and correctional services and when crime is committed to assist victims of crime.

• Policing, Crime Prevention and Response to Organized Crime:
  Ensuring safe communities in Alberta by ensuring adequate and effective policing, by targeting organized crime, and by developing and promoting crime prevention programs.
• Custody, Supervision and Rehabilitative Opportunities for Offenders:
  Ensuring effective and efficient security and supervision of offenders that enhances public safety while offering offenders opportunities to become law-abiding citizens.
• Security Services:
  Ensuring safe communities in Alberta by providing security services to government officials, personnel, and the judiciary. Maintaining the capability to anticipate and respond to changes in terrorism threat levels through the intelligence driven responses of the Criminal Intelligence Service Alberta, and the Security and Information Management Unit.
• Victims Programs and Services:
  Ensuring victims are treated with dignity and respect and that they receive information about programs and services, assistance during the criminal justice process, and that eligible victims promptly receive financial benefits.

Alberta Solicitor General was created as a separate and equal Government of Alberta ministry in March 2001. The ministry name was changed to Alberta Solicitor General and Public Security in June 2005. The department is responsible for ensuring Alberta's communities remain safe places for Albertans to live, work and raise families.

Solicitor General and Public Security provides adequate and effective policing programs and promotes crime prevention activities. The ministry's victims' service programs treat victims with dignity and respect, and offer information and assistance during police investigations and court proceedings. Alberta Solicitor General and Public Security maintains effective and efficient correctional programs while helping offenders return to the community better able to contribute to society in a positive way.

Organization Chart

Office of the Solicitor General and Minister of Public Security

Office of the Deputy Solicitor General and Deputy Minister of Public Security

Alberta Solicitor General and Public Security Boards, Agencies and Committees

Criminal Injuries Review Board
Law Enforcement Review Board
Victims of Crime Programs Committee

Solicitor General and Public Security

Aboriginal Justice Initiatives Unit
Communications
Correctional Services
Corporate Services
Human Resource Services
Information Technology Branch
Public Security
Special Projects Branch

Alberta Solicitor General and Public Security Annual Report 2005 - 2006
September 26, 2006

Alberta Solicitor General Business Plan 2006 - 2009
March 22, 2006

Criminal Intelligence Service of Alberta Annual Report 2003 - 2004
May 20, 2004

Alberta Solicitor General Estimates 2002 - 2003
March 20, 2002