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Glossary

ACO - Assistant Chief Officer
ACO - Attendance Centre Order
ACPO - Assistant Chief Probation Officer
AOABH - Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm
AP - Approved Premises
ASBO - Anti Social Behaviour Order
ATR - Alcohol Treatment Requirement
Asset - Young Offender Assessment Profile
BASS - Bail Accommodation and Support Service
BCST - Basic Custody Screening Tool
BSS - Business Shared Services
CA - Case Administrator
CALM - Controlling Anger and Learning to Manage it
CAS - Case Allocation System
CB - Conditional Bail
CDO - Court Duty Officer
CDRP - Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership
CEO - Chief Executive Officer
CJIT - Criminal Justice Intervention Team
CO - Community Order
CP - Community Payback
CPA - Contract Package Area
CPO - Chief Probation Officer
CPS - Crown Prosecution Service
CQSW - Certificate of Qualification in Social Work
CRAMS - Case Recording and Management System
CRB - Criminal Records Bureau
CRC - Community Rehabilitation Company
CS - Community Service
DCPO - Deputy Chief Probation Officer
DIP - Drug Intervention Programme
DJ - District Judge
DRR - Drug Rehabilitation Requirement
DTTO - Drug Treatment and Testing Order
DV - Domestic Violence
Delius - Case Recording System
EPP - Extended sentence for Public Protection
ETS - Enhanced Thinking Skills
EVR - Early Voluntary Retirement
FFS - Fee For Service
GOP - General Offending Programme
HMCTS - Her Majesty's Court and Tribunal Service
HMIP - Her Majesty's Inspector of Probation
HMPS - Her Majesty's Prison Service
HV - Home Visit
ICT - Information and Communication Technology
IDAP - Integrated Domestic Abuse Programme
IOM - Integrated Offender Management
IPCC - Independent Police Complaints Commission
LDU - Local Delivery Unit
MAPPA - Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements
MARAC - Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference
MTT - Mobilisation Transition and Transformation
MoJ - Ministry of Justice
NACRO - Nat Ass for Care and Resettlement of Offenders
NAPO - National Assoc of Probation Officers
NOMS - National Offender Management Service
NPS - National Probation Service
OASys - Offender Assessment System
OGRS - Offender Group Reconviction Scale
OM - Offender Manager
OMU - Offender Management Unit
PCC - Police and Crime Commissioner
PCSO - Police Community Support Officer
PDA - Practice Development Assessor
PI - Probation Instruction
PO - Probation Officer
PPO - Prolific and Priority Offenders
PSO - Probation Services Officer
PSR - Pre Sentence Report
PbR - Payment by Results
RAR - Rehabilitation Activity Requirement
RIC - Remanded in Custody
RO - Responsible Officer
ROB - Remanded on Bail
ROCB - Remanded on Conditional Bail
ROTL - Release On Temporary Licence
RSR - Risk of Serious Recidivism
SAR - Specified Activity Requirement
SARN - Structured Assessment of Risk and Need
SFO - Serious Fraud Office
SFO - Serious Further Offence
SMG - Senior Management Group
SMT - Senior Management Team
SOPO - Sex Offending Prohibition Order
SOTP - Sex Offender Treatment Programme
SP - Supervision Plan
SPO - Senior Probation Officer
SPOC - Single Point of Contact
SSO - Suspended Sentence Order
SSO - Suspended Sentence Order
TM - Team Manager
TR - Transforming Rehabilitation
TSP - Thinking Skills Programme
TTG - Through The Gate
TWOC - Take Without Owners Consent
Tier 1 - Punish
Tier 2 - Help
Tier 3 - Change
Tier 4 - Control
UCB - Un Conditional Bail
UPW - Un Paid Work
WMT - Workload Management Tool
WWOB - Warrant With Out Bail
YOI - Young Offenders Institution
YOT - Youth Offending Team