Probation Officer

[shelfwoman]

Is it better to be a Probation Officer or a Probation Service Officer? What's the difference?

[Hawkwalk]

surely it is the same thing.

[Sado]

It's like the difference between a police constable and a community support officer.
Probation officers usualy have degrees, whilst you don't need one to be a PSO. PSO's usualy run courses with offenders, and do a specific task, wheras probation officers carry out more involved work
Check these sites.

.http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_p age/Explore_types_of_jobs/Types_of_Job/p!eipaL ?state=showocc&pageno=1&idno=86

http://www.probation.homeoffice.gov.uk/output/ page1.asp