Oh dear

No wonder probation are in trouble. In Cumbria they allow the people on Community Service to smoke cannabis on the bus - its illegal and a breach of conditions, but they don't call the police or report it. The probation officers pretend to rehabilitate the offenders but just sit for an hour filling in pointless surveys and gossiping. As a family member of an offender I find their attitude towards me offensive and intrusive - they appear to hold information about non-service users without permission and illegally. I have been threatened by a probation officer who also lied to my face - I'm not the criminal and they had no right to do this. They must laugh all the way to the bank when the courts rule a person to come under supervision of probation. The probation officers have a reputation for being vindictive, but clearly have their favourites as I have sat and witnessed a service user go to the probation office a day late clearly under the influence of drugs and hardly able to stand, but they got away with that. Yet other people get threatened. It’s a pointless service that does not help and does not rehabilitate – an utter joke that the justice system should be ashamed of.

Three Names - 05/12/2019 | report this review