Opn. No.

HON. DONALD L. CROWLEY County Attorney, Wayne County

This is in response to your letter inquiring of this office whether a county probation officer may also serve as a part-time police officer for a village located within the same county.

Section 256(1) of the Executive Law requires each county to maintain or provide for a probation agency to perform probation services. Section 257(4) of said law provides as follows:

"4. It shall be the duty of every probation officer to furnish to each of his probationers a statement of the conditions of probation, and to instruct him with regard thereto; to…