THE PROBATION OFFICER APPLICATION: CURRENT LEGAL STATUS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES

The quality of educational, social rehabilitation, diagnostic, preventive and control tasks by the probation service depends on which candidates are recruited for the profession of probation officer through recruitment and how they are prepared to perform this profession, both theoretically and practically. On April 5, 2023 an amendment to the Act on probation officers entered into force, which introduced many changes in the organization of the probation application. After more than a year of operation of the new regulations, the author of this article collected, through a survey, the opinions, regarding the application conducted in accordance with the new regulations, as well as proposals for its possible modernization.