Welcome to Lancashire Probation

Lancashire Probation Trust is part of the National Probation Service, a statutory criminal justice service. As a law enforcement agency we have a clear role to protect the public, to ensure the proper punishment of offenders and to rehabilitate offenders. We work together with the the other criminal justice agencies: Police,  the Prison Service,  the Courts and  the Crown Prosecution Service.

In Lancashire our work is serving local people - building safer communities, reducing crime, ensuring public protection and fewer victims. We work in partnerships with many agencies in the county.
Probation's role is to:
 
  • Protect the public
  • Reduce re-offending
  • Enforce punishment of offenders
  • Rehabilitate offenders to law-abiding lives
  • Uphold the interests of victims of crime
Enforcement, rehabilitation & public protection
 
 

We work to national objectives with focus on local delivery of services relevant to the needs and concerns of all sections of our diverse county.

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In Lancashire last year we supervised around 3000 offenders doing Unpaid Work under a Community Order.
They worked a total over 215,000 hours helping communities during the year.

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This section of the site is for people who have been sentenced, their families and friends.

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