Koby Braidek

Koby Benjamin Braidek (b. 28 April 1996 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian lawyer and politician, who has served since 1 February 2020 as the Lower Mainland Police and Crime Commissioner, the elected civilian official in charge of the Lower Mainland Police Board, the official employer of the Lower Mainland Constabulary (LMC). He is the youngest individual to have ever served as a county Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) in Canadian history.

Before serving as the Lower Mainland PCC, Braidek served from 2017 to 2020 as North Fraser County Crown Attorney, the chief prosecutor of North Fraser County (one of the Lower Mainland's seven counties) and second-most senior ranking official of the North Fraser County Department of Justice.

Braidek's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Lower Mainland, which in cooperation with public health authorities involved mobilising Lower Mainland Constabulary resources to establish a region-wide testing and contact tracing protocol, which included multiple police-manned vehicular and pedestrian checkpoints throughout the Lower Mainland staffed by county and provincial health officers, is lauded as one of the best local responses in the nation; as of October 2020, the Lower Mainland has the lowest per capita rate of infection of all major Canadian urban areas, as well as the highest testing rate, with an estimated minimum of 80% of individuals tested.