Has anyone been on probation before?

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I'm finding it extremely intrusive and I'm wondering if my experience is unique or this is typical.

They try to intrude on areas completely unrelated to the conviction, assume the worst about all aspects of your life, and continually talk down to you when they clearly don't understand the points you make.

I've got more important things to do with my time and energy than placate ignorance (except on this forum, of course :D).


Has anyone here been subject to probation, how did you find it?



Edit: Before anyone asks, I don't really want to get into the details of the conviction or sentence on here. Just looking for anyone with a similar experience to see if this is consistent within the service.
 
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My guess is the number of people that have been on probation on this forum will be very small. I mean most of them will be computer geeks & nerds :O
 
You got done for knife carrying no?

My view is if you’re carrying a knife, I suspect you’re up to no good in other areas as well and probation are fair to look at that.
 
Martynt74 said:
I didn't find it bad at all for the ~15 months or so, was generally a once a month face to face that lasted ~5 minutes for the first 6 months, then a phone call check in for the rest. There was some absolute nonsense paperwork involved though.

I guess it very much depends on the crime/attitude of the officer though.

Can always chat via Trust if you want a better conversation about it.
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Thank you. My first two have been over an hour, no paperwork (but that could be covid related), and extremely intrusive about all aspects of my life. Did yours involve questions solely around the conviction? If not, how intrusive did they get for requests about details?

Thanks for replying :)
 
Le Clandestin Brun said:
Thank you. My first two have been over an hour, no paperwork (but that could be covid related), and extremely intrusive about all aspects of my life. Did yours involve questions solely around the conviction? If not, how intrusive did they get for requests about details?

Thanks for replying :)
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Le Clandestin Brun said:
Edit: Before anyone asks, I don't really want to get into the details of the conviction or sentence on here.
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You don't have to get into the details necessarily - what was it for though and what was the context?

Ahleckz said:
You got done for knife carrying no?

My view is if you’re carrying a knife, I suspect you’re up to no good in other areas as well and probation are fair to look at that.
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Sikhs are allowed to carry a knife... albeit they should probably have all the other stuff too - turban, bracelet etc.. else the claim that they need to carry it for religious reasons becomes a bit dubious.
 
I worked in Probation for 15 years - not front line, but have a fair bit of experience of much of the work.

It is a very intrusive process. Ultimately, the staff working your case are responsible for reducing the risk of you committing further offences. What you get out of it and how they plan to achieve that really depends on what you've been convicted of.

I always remember a very experienced officer, on the day of retiring telling me after 40 years in the field he'd come to the conclusion that his whole career was a waste of time. People don't change. Or moreover - you can't change people. It's partly why so much focus at the time was around working with young families and trying to prevent people getting into crime in the first place.
 
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