Police and Crime Commissioner (Canada)

In the Canadian Republic, a Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC; French: Commissionnaire de la police et du crime, CPC) is an indirectly elected civilian official who is responsible for supervising a police board, which acts as the civilian oversight body and employer of a particular local law enforcement agency (usually a county constabulary) within Canada's 13 provinces. Such police agencies answer to the respective province's Attorney General via their Solicitor General and a PCC.

For example, Koby Braidek is the incumbent Police and Crime Commissioner of the Lower Mainland, British Columbia; he appointed Chief Constable Anthony Allison Milo of the Lower Mainland Constabulary (LMC), to whom Milo is directly answerable.

PCCs regularly meet with the Attorney General and/or Solicitor General of their province and sometimes even the premier of the province, thus providing an invaluable link between the management of a local constabulary and the provincial government and political apparatus.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the 18 provincial and territorial police of Canada report directly to their respective government's public security ministry (generally led by a solicitor general), and as such have no PCC to report to. In fact, in these forces, the highest rank is called commissioner, which unlike a Police and Crime Commissioner is not a civilian office but rather the equivalent of a county constabulary or other local police force's chief constable.