Probation Act (Cap. 446), article 3

3. (1) There shall be a Department of Probation Services which shall be a department of Government headed by a public officer to be styled Director of Probation Services. (2) It shall be the duty of the Director of Probation Services - (a) to manage and direct the Department and to organise and supervise the probation services; (b) to direct probation officers on their work; (c) to give direction on record keeping and time management; (d) to supervise probation officers and periodically receive verbal or written reports on probationers from the probation officers; (e) to keep a register of each person sentenced to a community sanction; (f) to keep a register of pre-sentencing reports requested by courts; (g) to decide whether a probationer is to be arraigned in Court following a breach of any condition of a community sanction; and (h) to assign probation officers to probationers, to supervise provisional orders of supervision and to prepare pre-sentencing reports in accordance with this Act. (3) The Director may delegate any of the above duties to a senior member of staff. Laboratory analysis regarding tests for drugs or alcohol. Added by: XLVII. 2016.2.