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Responsible for:
- Providing pre-sentence investigative
services to assist the court in determining the most appropriate
sentence in a specific case;
- Administering a spectrum of
community-based sentencing alternatives through which the courts may
satisfy a range of sentencing objectives, including:
- Probation Supervision which provides
services, surveillance and control of offenders in the community
subject to specific and enforceable court-imposed conditions;
- Community Service Order Programs in
which offenders are ordered by the court via a probation order to
perform a specified number of non-paid hours of work for a
non-commercial community-based agency;
- Restitution Enforcement or monetary
payment by an offender for actual loss or damage to property as a
result of an offence;
- Electronic Monitoring Program -
monitoring low risk offenders who are permitted to be released from
prison with strict conditions regarding time away from home and
participation in correctional intervention programs; and
- Conditional Sentence Order
Enforcement and supervision through which offenders are permitted
to serve their term of imprisonment in the community and, usually,
are confined to their homes.
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