North Fraser County Department of Corrections

The North Fraser County Department of Corrections (NFCDC) is an agency of the Executive Council of North Fraser County the most populous county of the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC), which is responsible for operating all county jails and remand centres in the county, as well as parole and probation offices across the several municipalities of the county. It is the second-largest corrections department in terms of number of personnel and facilities in BC, after BC Corrections, which operates the provincial correctional centres and the probation and parole programs of offenders released or diverted from incarceration in a provincial facility. The great majority (about 85%) of persons arrested and detained/remanded into custody in North Fraser County are held in NFCDC jails or remand centres, the largest of which is North Fraser Pretrial Detention Centre in New Westminster.