Welcome to Lancashire Probation
Punishing Offenders, Protecting the Public and Cutting Crime
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, cutting crime, ensuring public protection and fewer victims. We work in partnerships with many agencies in the county.
Probation's role is to:
Probation's role is to:
- Protect the public
- Cut Crime
- Enforce punishment of offenders
- Rehabilitate offenders to law-abiding lives
- Uphold the interests of victims of crime
If you would like to nominate a local project for the community payback team to work on, fill out the form here
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.
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.
This section of the site is for people who have been sentenced, their families and friends.
