As part of the National Probation Service, the staff of Kent Probation Area are committed to minimising the impact of crime on communities and especially victims who have been touched by serious violent or sexually violent crimes.
They are actively committed to rehabilitate offenders given community sentences and those released from prison; to enforce the conditions of their court orders and release licences and work in conjunction with the police and other agencies to protect the public.
The National Probation Service has the core aims of:
- Protecting the Public
- Reducing re-offending
- Proper punishment of offenders in the community
- Ensuring offenders are aware of the effects of crime on their victims
- Rehabilitation of offenders
More than half of all offenders sentenced to a Community Punishment Order in Kent stop committing crime.
Kent Probation Area formed a partnership with the Clean Kent Campaign - a county council initiative to tidy the Kent environment - as part of Community Payback, an initiative aimed at raising the profile of compulsory unpaid work and widening public ownership of projects.
