Thames Valley Probation - Been Sentenced?

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The court has sentenced you to do a Community Order. This might be:
• to punish you
• to reduce crime
• to change the way you behave and help you stay away from crime
• to protect the public
• to make you pay back something tothe community or to the victims of your crime.
Your Community Order is made up of one or more 'Requirements'. The court has chosen a Requirement or Requirements (there are 12) based on the seriousness of your crime and your personal circumstances.

You will be given a leaflet about each of the Requirements in your Community Order.

You can view the 12 Requirements or look at the 'Probation Work' section.

You will have one person who you must keep in contact with while you are on your Community Order.

This person is called your Supervising Officer. Thety may be an officer of the probation service, or the officer in charge of an attendance centre, or an electronic monitoring officer (if the court has said you must be tagged).

You might be told to keep in contact with other people too. If you do not do so, you may be taken back to court.

The court expects your supervising officer to make sure that you stick to the rules of your Requirements and complete your sentence successfully.

If you do not do this, the court expects your supervising officer to do something about it.

A community sentence, or a non-custodial sentence, means that people serve their punishment in the community e.g. not in prison.

If you are receiving any of the probation services listed here, then you will be under the direct supervision of the probation service in the community (except for 'tagging').

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