The phrase "a former probation" is not correct in standard English usage.
It is unclear and does not convey a clear meaning, as "former" typically refers to something that was previously in a state or position, while "probation" usually refers to a period of testing or trial, often in a legal or employment context.
Example: "After completing a year of a former probation, he was finally offered a permanent position."
Alternatives: "previous probation" or "past probationary period".
Leanne Wood is a 40-year-old mother of one, and a former probation officer.
Mr. Fawkner, a former probation and parole officer, founded the Kintock Group in 1985.
McGinty, a former probation officer and county judge, was elected county prosecutor in 2012.
They were not people of means: she was a secretary and he a former probation officer, and they had no children.
A former probation officer from the Rhondda Valley in south Wales, she was once expelled from the assembly for referring to the Queen as Mrs Windsor.
To those critics who question his credentials, Campbell, a former probation officer, points to his experience coaching in world championships, junior world championships and the Pan-American Games.
A former prisoner, former probation officer and two charity workers share their views on the government's plans to transform the prison probation service in order to cut reoffending rates.
A 40-year-old former probation officer and women's support officer from the Rhondda Valley in south Wales, Wood sums herself up on Twitter as: "Plaid Cymru.
There are two of them – Richard Ince, 72, and Ben Woodling, 38 – and they have been meeting their tutor, Niall Drennan, a performance writer and former probation officer, for two hours every other week since early summer, although no one can remember exactly when.
Several, including the remarkable Jo Rawlins Gilbert, an 83-year-old former probation officer from California, had travelled with Wood before, in her case to Libya.
A feeling that Mr Blair has neglected the Commons, and is in danger of getting Labour's "central narrative" wrong, explains why one bolshy backbencher, Andrew MacKinlay, has now challenged Clive Soley, an arguably too-obedient former probation officer, for the chairmanship of the parliamentary party.
