Welcome to the website for the Probation Board for Northern Ireland (PBNI)
PBNI helps to prevent reoffending by assessing offenders, challenging their offending behaviour, changing their attitudes and behaviour and thereby protecting the public. PBNI seeks to achieve its aims through the assessment and management of risk, through the preparation of professional assessments to assist sentencers, and the supervision of offenders in the community.
The Probation Board is a Non Departmental Public Body (NDPB) of the Department of Justice (DOJ), which is a new Northern Ireland Department which came into existence on 12 April 2010 and was established by the Department of Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2010. It has a range of devolved policing and justice functions, set out in the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010.
The role of the Department is to support the Minister for Justice to help keep the people of Northern Ireland safe.