Protecting the public is the priority of National Probation Service.  We are committed to improving this protection and to achieve this we work in close partnership with other agencies including the Prison Service, the health services and local authority housing and social services.  These are the Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA).

The Probation Service has worked with victims since 1991 and is committed to more contact and involvement with the victims of serious sexual and violent crime.

The MAPPA began operating in April 2001.  This body places a duty on the police and the National Probation Service to assess and manage risks posed by offenders in every community in England and Wales.  In the most serious cases MAPPA can recommend increased police monitoring, special steps to protect victims and the use of closely supervised accommodation.  The work of the MAPPAs is available to the public in the form of the MAPPA annual report published jointly by the NPS and the Prison Service. 

The recognition of the benefits of victim work resulted in a statutory duty to contact victims under the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000.  The NPS welcomes this advance and sees the role of victims as a priority in the criminal justice process.  When they ask for it, victims will be kept informed of the offender's release arrangements and in some cases it will be imperative that the victim is included in the determination of the supervision plan. 


MAPPA Keeping our Communities Safe Leaflet in various languages can be downloaded from below.

English (file size 409kb)

Kurdish (file size 314kb)

Latvian (file size 81kb)

Polish (file size 90kb)

Portuguese (file size 76kb)

Russian (file size 136kb)

Vietnamese (file size 137kb)

Welsh (file size 68kb)