Cybercrime Directorate (Lower Mainland Constabulary)

The Cybercrime Directorate is a directorate of the Lower Mainland Constabulary (LMC), the territorial police force of the ceremonial county of the Lower Mainland, in the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC). Cybercrime is primarily composed of plainclothes detectives and junior uniformed support staff (constables, sergeants and staff sergeants) who work a variety of desk roles, as well as civilian support staff composed mainly of IT experts. Cybercrime's responsibilities are investigating all crimes related to the internet, intranets, and all other digital technology, as well as assisting other directorates' investigations with said investigations' technological realm. For example, a unit of the Criminal Investigation Directorate (CID) investigating ties between senior organised crime figures and supposedly legitimate businesses, ties which typically rely upon covert electronic communications such as the use of VPNs and burner phones, may call upon Cybercrime to peruse all data and metadata from computers, cellphones, and other electronic hardware seized from the subject(s) of investigation, with the goal of producing evidence of covert communications between one party and the other. Nevertheless, many categories of criminal investigation fall squarely within Cybercrime's jurisdiction, such as online scams as well as other forms of digital fraud.