Community Probation Services

Community Probation Services (CPS) staff manage offenders on nine different sentences and orders in the community.  Sentences include home detention, community detention, intensive supervision, supervision and community work. Orders include parole, release on conditions (following short prison sentences), extended supervision and post-detention conditions (following a sentence of home detention).

Staff also provide advice to the courts and New Zealand Parole Board to help make effective sentencing and release decisions.

About CPS:

• Around 2,000 staff in 12 areas supported by National Office
• We have 1,265 probation officers and around 350 community work supervisors
• We work from over 126 sites and in courts
• We manage an average of 36,479 offenders on 44,684 sentences and orders each year
• We manage a throughput of approximately 120,000 sentences and orders each year
• We provide approximately 65,000 reports and 102,000 hours in court supporting the
• Judiciary and NZPB in making effective sentencing and release decisions
• 3.7 million hours of free labour are provided annually to local communities by offenders serving community work sentences
• We have an annual budget of $189m.