What role do officers play in supervising mentally disordered defendants and offenders?
The Guide to Judiciary Policies and Procedures clearly sets forth officers’ duties to conduct prerelease or presentence investigations for the court and to supervise defendants and offenders in the community. Officers play a crucial role in assessing dangerousness and the risk defendants and offenders may pose to themselves and others. Fulfilling such responsibilities requires officers to maintain knowledge of the persons under their supervision, make correctional treatment available to them, enforce the conditions of release imposed by the court or Parole Commission, and report violations of these conditions according to established standards and procedures.
