North Fraser County Department of Justice

The North Fraser County Department of Justice is the Crown prosecution authority of North Fraser County, British Columbia (BC), which is one of several executive departments of the North Fraser County Council. It is responsible for the prosecution of all legal claims and charges within the county at the municipal and county level, while provincial-level matters are handled by the BC Ministry of Justice and Attorney General, which also oversees the British Columbia Provincial Police and the British Columbia Sheriff Service. The North Fraser County Department of Justice, in addition to the departments of justice of the six other counties of the Lower Mainland, oversees the recommendation of the Lower Mainland Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC); the PCC in all other counties of BC is answerable to only a single county, as the Lower Mainland is the only county area in BC to not use a separate constabulary for each county. As such, the seven counties' departments of justice, in addition to the recommendation to the Lower Mainland Police Board (which is independently elected) of a PCC to lead the board, also as a matter of course oversee the Lower Mainland Police Board, insofar as its employees' (namely, the Lower Mainland Constabulary) activities affect the administration of justice within the respective county.