 | The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with British Columbia, Canada and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (March 2022) |
A police board, police services board, or police commission is an appointed commission of a local government charged with the responsibility of overseeing a local police force. Police boards may be required by government regulation, as they are in most of Canada, or they may be voluntarily formed by individual municipalities.
Police boards are generally established to create a degree of separation between political councils and non-political police forces, and are variously responsible for setting the policies, priorities, and budget of a police force; hiring the chief and deputy chiefs of police; determining the structure and organization of the police force; and conducting collective bargaining with police associations.[1] Police boards are usually explicitly prohibited from making operational decisions.[2]
- ^ "Police Commissions and Boards in Canada". U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
- ^ "Canadian Police Board Views on the Use of Police Performance Metrics". Public Safety Canada. 21 December 2018. Retrieved 2023-09-18.