San Diego County, California Probation

The San Diego County Probation Department is the body in San Diego County, California responsible for supervising convicted offenders in the community, either who are on probation, such as at the conclusion of their sentences, or while on community supervision orders.

The Department is organized into four service divisions: Administrative Services, Adult Field Services, Juvenile Field Services, and Institutional Services. Collectively the department’s 1,000 sworn officers and 400 support staff supervise 19,000 adults and 4,000 juveniles in the community; 900 juveniles in detention/ treatment; and work with an additional 1,000 at-risk juveniles.

San Diego County Probation firearm policy requires a OC Spray, which they provide. In 1988, San Diego County Probation was the first county to be armed. Of the 58 counties in California, all but a few of the San Francisco bay area counties are armed.

Deputy Probation Officers are classified as Peace Officers. Officers have the power to arrest or take into custody and are required to undergo psychological testing.

In California all Deputy Probation Officers may carry off-duty concealed firearms, this was affirmed in both a California Attorney General's Opinion and by court decision by the 4th Appellate District Court of California in 1993.

Rank Structure of the Department:

Correctional Deputy Probation Officer 1, Correctional Deputy Probation Officer 2, Deputy Probation Officer, Senior Probation Officer, Supervising Probation Officer, Probation Division Chief, Deputy Chief Probation Officer, Assistant Chief Probation Officer, Chief Probation Officer

The primary mission of probation officers working with adults is to provide public safety and protect the community by providing services to the courts, offenders, and the public. The basic concept of this mission is that probationers under probation supervision will be appropriately supervised and assisted to become law-abiding individuals. The supervision may be intensive for offenders whose behavior poses a continuous threat to public safety or mid-level for those whose offenses pose less of a risk to the public.

DUI Intensive Supervision Program (DISP): DISP is an intensive supervision program that targets high risk drunk driver and offenders whose offenses involve the use of alcohol/drugs and result in great bodily injury. With an emphasis on field work, DISP officers collaborate with DUI treatment programs and law enforcement check points to increase compliance with court ordered treatment requirements and conditions of probation as they are related to drinking and driving. DISP officers conduct random home visits and conduct on the spot alcohol and drug testing. The focus of this program is community safety, victim reparations and offender rehabilitation.

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