Falkland Islands Probation Service Overview
Aim
Our priority is protecting the public by working in collaboration with those in conflict with the law to enable positive change, prevent further victims and contribute to community safety.
Values
- Anyone can change for the better
- Building strong, collaborative relationships enables change
- People can be held accountable for their actions without judging them
- Valuing diversity and promoting social justice and inclusion
- Respecting victim’s rights and preventing further victims
- Children are treated primarily as children, and their rights are upheld
Description of Service
The Falkland Islands Probation Service assesses and manages the risk posed by people subject to probation. It has a statutory duty to provide advice to the court, and to supervise and enforce community sentences. The Probation Service is involved in sentence planning at HMP Stanley and provides targeted intervention to those in prison and the community. Everyone who has a sentence in prison or in the community has a sentence plan in place to deliver rehabilitative work to address the factors leading to offending.
There is a Youth Diversion Scheme in place which aims to provide children and young people with early intervention to prevent harm and reduce the risk of offending. It provides a robust alternative to prosecution through the criminal justice system and is available to all children and young people over the age of criminal responsibility, who are at risk of offending.
The service is represented on the Falkland Islands Safeguarding Children’s Board, the Safeguarding Adults Board, and the Criminal Justice Council. The Falkland Islands Probation Service is responsible for ensuring that victims are supported, and kept informed of key dates during the sentence, and this is usually achieved in partnership with another agency.
Unusually support is also offered on a non-statutory basis – either for those at risk of offending or after statutory supervision (supervision as part of a sentence) has ended. This is an important aspect of the service which plays a unique role in keeping the community safe by offering ongoing support to those who want it.
The Falkland Islands Probation Service is a member of the Community Justice Overseas Territories (CJOT) network. This is a network of practitioners, academics and professionals connecting probation services across the British Overseas Territories, Crown Dependencies and other developing, remote or rural locations. CJOT’s objectives are to facilitate knowledge exchange and peer support whilst sharing and developing evidence based practice and research. For more information contact CJOT on
If you have any queries about the Falkland Islands Probation Service then please get in touch with the Probation Officer, Nicola Robinson, on (00500) 52610 or by email at