Lower Mainland Police Board

The Lower Mainland Police Board is a 47-member committee which serves as the civilian oversight body and employer of the Lower Mainland Constabulary (LMC), the territorial police force for the Lower Mainland Police Area, which is more or less coterminous with the Lower Mainland/Metro Vancouver region of the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC). It is headquartered in New Westminster, the capital city of BC, next to the headquarters of the Lower Mainland Constabulary.

Each mayor of the 40 municipalities and each county council chairperson or manager of the 7 counties which constitute the Lower Mainland Police Area together sit on the Police Board. They elect from amongst themselves an outside individual, recommended by any of the seven counties' Departments of Justice or Corrections, to serve as the Lower Mainland Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), to whom the Chief Constable of the LMC is directly accountable. The office of Police and Crime Commissioner has a three-year term, with no limit on the number of terms served consecutively or otherwise. The Lower Mainland Police Board is simultaneously accountable to the Department of Justice of all seven counties of the Lower Mainland through the Police and Crime Commissioner, especially the North Fraser County Department of Justice.

The Chief Constable of the LMC is also accountable, jointly and equally, to the Attorney General of British Columbia, although the Lower Mainland Police and Crime Commissioner is de facto the Chief Constable's more immediate superior.