Welcome to the Derbyshire Probation Area website.

Derbyshire is one of 42 probation areas in England and Wales, which together form the National Probation Service, the objectives of which are:-

• Protecting the Public

• Reducing re-offending

• The proper punishment of offenders in the community

• Ensuring offenders’ awareness of the effects of their crime on the victims of crime

• The rehabilitation of offenders

In Derbyshire we work extensively as a local level to achieve these objectives.  To do so we adopt a rigorous approach to offender supervision, and work in partnership with both statutory and voluntary sector bodies in order to enable informed decisions and improved communications, and to achieve real results.

We are performance led, working to the European Excellence Model.

In 2007/8 in Derbyshire we supervised some 3900 offenders, who between them had 5900 requirements.  These included 250 for drug treatment and 2230 for Unpaid Work.  We organised and supervised over 165,600 hours of Unpaid Work under the Government's Community Payback scheme worth over £886,000 to local communities.  We also provided over 4700 reports to the courts to inform sentencing options within the community.