0 a person whose job is to regularly see people who have committed crimes and who are on probation, and to help them to avoid committing crimes again --
1 an officer whose job is to manage criminals who are on probation --
It has been thought from experience that the proper case load which a probation officer can manage is fifty to sixty.
Frequently the officers of these societies are fully occupied and have not sufficient leisure to undertake the duties of a probation officer.
I do not argue for our country to be the world's parson or the world's policeman or the world's probation officer.
Sometimes the sort of probation officer one would hardly expect to be a success is the most successful.
Let us consider what are the responsibilities of the probation officer.
Not all those posts will be probation officer posts; some will be in administrative support.
I talked to a probation officer the other day who said that a client came in who was anorexic.
The probation officer was probably trying to be helpful.
