About the Community Order

The court has sentenced you to a Community Order. This might be to:

			Punish you
			To reduce crime
			To change the way you behave and help you stay away from crime
			To protect the public, or
			To make you pay back something to the community or to the victims of your crime.

Your Community Order is made up of one or more requirements. The Court has chosen a requirement or requirements based on the seriousness of your crime and you personal circumstances. You will be given a separate leaflet about each of the requirements in your Community Order.

You will have one person who you must keep in contact with while you are on your Community Order. This person is called your ‘Responsible Officer’. This may be an officer from the Probation Service, or an electronic monitoring officer (if the court has said you must be tagged).

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