Attorney General of British Columbia

The Attorney General of British Columbia is the chief legal advisor to the Premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) and the Cabinet of BC, and the highest-ranking cabinet official responsible for the administration of justice. The Attorney General oversees both his deputy, the Solicitor General of BC, who oversees the province's correctional system, including administration of prisons, jails, parole and probation; the Attorney General also oversees the Crown Attorney of BC, who is in charge of the BC Crown Prosecution Service, which handles the great majority of actual prosecution of criminal charges at the provincial level, with the Attorney General handling only the most serious cases. The Attorney General himself oversees the non-correctional law enforcement agencies of BC, namely the British Columbia Provincial Police, but also the province's various territorial police forces which are responsible to the Attorney General of BC via their jurisdiction's Police and Crime Commissioner.