Police officers and first responders from across North America are expected to participate in a funeral procession Thursday for a Quebec provincial police officer killed while on duty last month.

Twenty-year veteran Sgt. Maureen Breau was fatally stabbed while serving an arrest warrant on March 27 in Louiseville, Que., about 100 kilometres northeast of Montreal.

The funeral will take place at 1:30 p.m. in Trois-Rivières, Que. at Sanctuaire Notre-Dame-du-Cap, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, about halfway between Montreal and Quebec City.

Thousands of officers and first responders will take part in a three-kilometre procession for Breau, 42, a mother of two whose husband was also a provincial police officer.

The man accused was shot dead by provincial police.

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