High Visibility Community Payback
Community Payback is a punishment for offenders
involving tough, physical work on projects that benefit the
community.
In Peterborough offenders complete approximately 60,000 hours of
work each year, visibly improving your city and helping to make it
a safer place.
Supervised by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Probation
Trust, all offenders are carefully risk assessed before being
allocated to work projects, ensuring public safety.
These projects involve anything from restoring derelict land,
transforming ‘grot spots’ and decorating buildings, to clearing
rubbish and removing graffiti.
As well as punishing offenders for their crimes, Community
Payback also helps prevent the likelihood of reoffending, as it
provides a chance to gain qualifications to increase employment
prospects. Research shows that offenders with stable employment are
30% less likely to reoffend.
You can have a say on how and where Community Payback is carried
out. The Probation service works closely with the Neighbourhood
Management teams and the SaferPeterborough partnership to identify
projects, especially those that have a community safety or crime
prevention focus.
Contact the Neighbourhood Manager for your area by emailing
neighbourhoods@peterborough.gov.uk
If you represent an organisation that could undertake the
supervision of a team of offenders, contact the Community Payback
team on (01733) 348828 or visit Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough Probation Trust.