Lower Mainland Police and Crime Commissioner

The Lower Mainland Police and Crime Commissioner (usually abbreviated colloquially as the PCC) is an elected public official in the Lower Mainland, Canada's third-most populous metropolitan area and a ceremonial county of the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC). The Lower Mainland PCC is charged with routine decision-making and executive management of the Lower Mainland Police Board, the official employer and de facto civilian oversight committee of the Lower Mainland Constabulary (LMC), while the Police Board itself retains ultimate authority on policy and both appoints and dismisses the PCC via majority vote.

The Lower Mainland Police and Crime Commissioner is one of two public officials to whom the Chief Constable of the Lower Mainland Constabulary is accountable, the other being the Attorney General of British Columbia. The office of Police and Crime Commissioner has a three-year term, with no limit on the amount of terms served, consecutive or otherwise. The PCC is the more immediate superior of the LMC's Chief Constable, as the office is responsible for appointing the Chief Constable on advice of the Police Board, and can dismiss the Chief Constable with cause as long as the PCC has the majority backing of the Police Board.

The Office of the Lower Mainland Police and Crime Commissioner takes up the whole fourth floor of 4603 Kingsway in Burnaby, North Fraser County, and includes the Senior Legal Counsel to the PCC who oversees four junior legal counsels, a ten-person public relations team which often collaborates with the PR office of the Chief Constable, and 15 other assistant and advisory personnel which answer to the PCC or the PCC's appointed deputy, meaning the Office of the PCC has 29 staff excluding the Deputy PCC, who acts as the PCC's chief of staff, and the PCC him/herself. The PCC also maintains a smaller liaison office adjacent to the offices of the Chief Constable and Deputy Chief Constable in Columbia Street Station, the headquarters of the Lower Mainland Constabulary in New Westminster, North Fraser County.

The incumbent Lower Mainland Police and Crime Commissioner is Koby Braidek, former Crown Attorney of North Fraser County from 2014 to 2019; he has been PCC since 1 February 2020, and is thus currently in his first term in office. Braidek is the youngest person ever to have served as PCC in Canadian history.