Operations Directorate
The aim of the Operations Directorate is to reduce the risk of re-offending through quality assessments and effective supervision and re-integration of offenders. To achieve this, staff provide probation work and related services to the courts, prisons and places of detention.
The work involves:
• Preparing pre-sanction assessments for the courts,
• Supervising offenders in the community who are referred by the court,
• Supervising offenders released conditionally from custody.
Structure of the Directorate
The directorate is comprised of the following posts:
• Deputy Director
• Assistant Directors
• Assistant Principal Probation Officers/Regional Managers
• Assistant Principal
• Senior Probation Officers
• Probation Officers
• Probation Service Assistants
• Community Service Supervisors
The Deputy Director for Operations has overall responsibility for the day-to-day administration, planning and management of this directorate and reports regularly to the Director of the Probation Service.
The Assistant Directors report to the Deputy Director for Operations and have responsibility for Young Persons Probation and Community Service & Service Funded Projects. Delivery of the service at local level is organised on a team basis using a regional structure. There are 7 Operational Regions. Two of these,
• Young Persons Probation and
• Prisoners, Risk and Resettlement
are organised nationally. The other 5 regions, as follows, are the responsibility of an Assistant Principal Probation Officer (or Regional Manager);
• Dublin North & North East
• Dublin South & Wicklow
• Midlands & South East
• South West
• West/North-West & Westmeath
Administrative support for the Operations Directorate and all regional offices is provided by staff of the Corporate Services Directorate.
