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Tory probation sale 'risks public safety'
Service could be handed to dodgy privateers
Striking probation officers warned the public yesterday that their safety is put at risk by the government's privatisation gamble.
Thousands of dedicated workers poured out of offices across Britain at lunchtime to raise the alarm about the 70 per cent sell-off of the probation service.
Leaders of probation union Napo drove home their message on a bus tour of London, which passed the Ministry of Justice and the Royal Courts.
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