Lower Mainland Police Board

The Lower Mainland Police Board is a committee which serves as the civilian oversight body and official employer of the Lower Mainland Constabulary (LMC), a Canadian county constabulary which serves as the territorial police force for the Lower Mainland Police Area, which is more or less coterminous with the Lower Mainland/Metro Vancouver region of the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC). It is headquartered in New Westminster, the capital city of BC, two blocks from the LMC headquarters.

Each mayor of the 40 municipalities and each county council chairperson or manager of the 7 counties which constitute the Lower Mainland Police Area together sit on the Police Board as equal members with one vote each regarding policy decisions or appointments. The Police Board elects an outside individual to serve as the Lower Mainland Police and Crime Commissioner (colloquially the PCC); the PCC is responsible for appointing the Chief Constable of the LMC, who is answerable to the Lower Mainland Police Board via the PCC.

The Chief Constable of the LMC is also accountable, jointly and equally, to the Attorney General of British Columbia, although the Lower Mainland Police and Crime Commissioner is de facto the Chief Constable's more immediate superior. The office of Police and Crime Commissioner has a three-year term, with no limit on the number of terms served consecutively or otherwise.