London Probation Trust is part of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS).  We employ 3,000 staff across London, and at any one time supervise 45,000 offenders across London’s 32 boroughs.  We work alongside other criminal justice agencies, including the police, prisons and courts to protect the public by supervising offenders in the community. 

 

We are committed to:

 

  • cutting crime through reducing reoffending
  • protecting the public
  • working with diverse, local partnerships
  • enforcing community sentences
  • delivering quality, innovative services to influence positive change in offenders' behaviour for the benefit of local communities.

 

Probation Officers supervise offenders aged 18 and over:

 

  • Who have been sentenced by the courts to a community order or suspended sentence order, or
  • Who have been released from prison on licence to serve the rest of their sentence in the community.

 

The role of the Probation Officer is to make sure offenders:

 

  • Complete their sentence as the court intended and
  • Inform the courts if they don’t
  • Those on licence may be recalled to prison if they fail to meet the terms of the licence.

 

Probation staff work with offenders to help them stop committing further crimes. Their work contributes to crime prevention and public safety in the capital by reducing reoffending and managing the risk of harm offenders pose.

 

Additionally, they assist courts by writing reports on convicted offenders so that the judge or magistrate has a full picture of the offender before passing sentence.

 

Some probation staff are based in prisons, helping to prepare prisoners for release. Others work with the victims of the most serious crimes.

 

To find out more about the work we do, see our "What We Do" section