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Is it better to be a Probation Officer or a Probation Service Officer? What's the difference?
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It's like the difference between a police constable and a community support officer.
Probation officers usualy have degrees, whilst you don't need one to be a PSO. PSO's usualy run courses with offenders, and do a specific task, wheras probation officers carry out more involved work
Check these sites.
.http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_p age/Explore_types_of_jobs/Types_of_Job/p!eipaL ?state=showocc&pageno=1&idno=86
http://www.probation.homeoffice.gov.uk/output/ page1.asp
Probation officers usualy have degrees, whilst you don't need one to be a PSO. PSO's usualy run courses with offenders, and do a specific task, wheras probation officers carry out more involved work
Check these sites.
.http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_p age/Explore_types_of_jobs/Types_of_Job/p!eipaL ?state=showocc&pageno=1&idno=86
http://www.probation.homeoffice.gov.uk/output/ page1.asp
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