Cap. 446 Art. 3Duties of Director of Probation Services.

(1) There shall be a Department of Probation Services which shall be a department of Government headed by a public officer to be styled Director of Probation Services.

(2) It shall be the duty of the Director of Probation Services -

(a) to manage and direct the Department and to organise and supervise the probation services;

(b) to direct probation officers on their work;

(c) to give direction on record keeping and time management;

(d) to supervise probation officers and periodically receive verbal or written reports on probationers from the probation officers;

(e) to keep a register of each person sentenced to a community sanction;

(f) to keep a register of pre-sentencing reports requested by courts;

(g) to decide whether a probationer is to be arraigned in Court following a breach of any condition of a community sanction; and

(h) to assign probation officers to probationers, to supervise provisional orders of supervision and to prepare pre-sentencing reports in accordance with this Act.

(3) The Director may delegate any of the above duties to a senior member of staff.