Any court services officer . After making an arrest, the court services officer . The statute clearly allows the district court to sua sponte issue a warrant for a violation of a defendant's probation at any time during probation. The fact that the proceedings were initiated by the court services officer filing a motion and affidavit with the court setting out the ways that Wonders had violated the conditions of his probation did not deprive the district court of jurisdiction. Then there is clear authority to request a warrant through affidavit ahead of time of the arrest.
Probation officers are arms of the court.
They are entitled to seek enforcement of the court's orders, in the Court's opinion. We agree with the district court. Neither is Malbrough authority for prohibiting a court services officer from initiating a revocation proceeding by informing a court of a defendant's purported probation violation prior to the issuance of an arrest warrant. The issue in Malbrough was whether a county attorney was authorized to initiate revocation proceedings when not specifically authorized to do so by the provisions of K.S.A. 22-3716. A panel of this court determined that K.S.A. 22-3716 does not limit the authority of a county attorney to initiate probation revocation proceedings.