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Role of The Probation Service

The Probation Service is a branch of the Department of Justice, committed to working to reduce offending, create safer communities and fewer victims through offender rehabilitation.

The Probation Service contributes towards this by:

Ensuring court ordered supervision is implemented
Reducing the likelihood of reoffending and risk of harm to the public
Making good the harm done by crime (reparation and restorative justice)

The Probation Service delivers the following services:

Offender assessment, supervision and sentence management
Community Service and Community Return Schemes
Young Peoples Probation (YPP)

Probation Officers become involved in the criminal justice process between the trial and the sentencing phases.

They provide the Judge with a pre-sanction assessment to help him or her decide on an appropriate sentence. Where the Judge decides that a non-custodial sentence involving supervision or community service is appropriate the Probation Service will ensure that the Court Order is implemented.

The Director of the Probation Service has responsibility for:

The delivery of services to help protect the public, improve community safety and to support offenders, referred by the Courts and on release from custody, to reintegrate in society;
The provision of probation supervision, community service, anti offending behaviour programmes and related specialist support services to both adult and young offenders, which aim to prevent them committing further offences.

Further information

Read the Probation Service Strategy Statement 2021 – 2023.

Read the Annual Reports from the Probation Service.

Learn more about the Probation Service and its work.

Contact details for the Probation Service are available below.

Probation Service

Seoladh:

Haymarket, Smithfield, Dublin 7 , D07 WT27

Suíomh gréasáin:

www.probation.ie/

Ríomhphost:

psinfo@probation.ie

Uimhir theileafóin:

+353 1 8173600