About Suspended Sentence Requirement

The court has sentenced you to a Suspended Sentence 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 Suspended Sentence 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 your personal circumstances.

About Your Responsible Officer

You will have one person who you must keep in contact with while you are on the community part of your Suspended Sentence Order.

This person is called your ‘Responsible Officer’. They may be an officer of the Probation Service, or the officer in charge of an Attendance Centre, or an Electronic Monitoring Officer (if the court has said you must be tagged). You might be told to keep in contact with other people too.

The court expects your Responsible Officer to make sure that you stick to the rules of your Requirements and complete your order successfully. If you do not do this, the court expects your Responsible Officer to do something about it.

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