Police and Crime Commissioner (Canada)

In the Canadian Republic, a Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) is an indirectly elected civilian official who is responsible for supervising a police board, which acts as the official employer of all municipal and county law enforcement agencies within Canada's twelve provinces. Such agencies also answer to the respective province's Attorney General.

At the provincial level, both provincial police and provincial sheriff services answer only to the respective province's Attorney General, while at the federal level, federal law enforcement agencies, namely, the RCMP, answers to the Minister of Justice, the Cabinet minister responsible for Public Safety Canada.