Solicitor-General of British Columbia

The Solicitor-General of British Columbia is a member of the provincial government of the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC). The Solicitor-General chairs the BC Ministry of Public Safety & Solicitor-General, which acts as both the interior ministry and justice ministry of the province: the ministry oversees the administration of justice in the province, and as such is the institution for which all public prosecutors work (who represent the state in civil and criminal proceedings, known constitutionally as the "crown counsel"); the ministry also oversees all law enforcement agencies in BC, directly supervising the British Columbia Sheriff Service (BCSS), the provincial police force, as well as the British Columbia Corrections Service (BCCS), which operates all provincial (non-federal) prisons and pretrial remand centres in BC and the provincial parole and probation program.

In addition to the BCSS and BCCS, which are under the direct supervision of the Solicitor-General of British Columbia, the 11 territorial police forces, which contract with the counties and municipalities within their police area to provide local policing, are each overseen by a police board consisting of the mayors of the respective police area but ultimately responsible to the BC Solicitor-General.

The incumbent Solicitor-General of British Columbia is Michael C. Farnworth, in office since 18 July 2017. Farnworth is a member of the ruling British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC-NDP), and was born on 23 July 1959 in Bebington, Merseyside, England.