Welcome to Cheshire Probation Area

Welcome to Cheshire Probation Area

Cheshire Probation Area is one of the 42 Areas/Trusts within England and Wales that form the National Probation Service and currently employs around 400 staff, supervising offenders in custody and in the community.

Our key aims are:

  • the protection of the public
  • the reduction in re-offending
  • the rehabilitation of offenders
  • the proper punishment of offenders
  • ensuring offenders’ awareness of the effects of crime on the victims of crime and the public

We are a key agency within the local criminal justice system and we work in close partnership with other criminal justice agencies such as the Police, the Prison Service, the Courts, Crown Prosecution Service and Victim Support.

We currently supervise approximately 4,100 offenders at any one time as well as producing just under 4,000 reports for sentencers in the Magistrates' and Crown Courts. We supervised the completion of 171,068 hours of Community Payback by offenders across Cheshire, Halton and Warrington during 2008/09, of which 34,518 were directly linked to crime reduction.