Police area (Canada)

In Canada, a police area (French: zone de police) is a jurisdictional area for which a single county constabulary is responsible, which is usually coterminous with a particular ceremonial county. Police areas were created to allow for the amalgamation of multiple municipal police agencies into more streamlined services covering a wider county area. A typical police area will consist of one or more administrative counties and their constituent municipalities and unincorporated communities. For example, the Lower Mainland Police Area is under the jurisdiction of the Lower Mainland Constabulary (LMC), and consists of the six counties which together make up the ceremonial county of the Lower Mainland.