Community Probation & Psychological Services (CPPS) manages offenders serving sentences or orders in the community and provides information to the judiciary and NZ Parole Board.
CPPS has close to 1,500 staff in 140 sites. At any one time staff may be managing up to 29,000 sentences and orders, or around 72,000 sentences and orders per year.
CPPS works closely with prisons, community providers and groups, and other government agencies and organisations. Our staff include probation officers, community work supervisors, service centre managers, psychologists and programme facilitators.
Our strategies - Ensuring effective offender management using an integrated approach.
Range of sentences
CPPS manages offenders on a range of sentences with particular aims including reparation to the community, punishment (restriction of liberty) and rehabilitation. Offenders may be subject to one or more sentences at any one time.
Reducing re-offending
Evidence-based research from here and overseas shows that treating an individual’s specific crime-causing needs is an effective way to reduce re-offending. CPPS delivers a variety of interventions such as targeted rehabilitation programmes and reintegrative services to suitable offenders in the community.
There is no ‘one size fits all’ solution - the best results are achieved when the right person receives the right intervention at the right time, and gets support from the community, friends and family to maintain their new behaviours once their sentence has ended.
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More information about CPPS and its work can be found with the following links: