A FRANKSTON woman convicted of a bomb hoax at the Frankston Civic Centre has been ordered to pay compensation and make a donation to the Blue Ribbon Foundation.

After receiving Brenda Marie Butler's psychological assessment, magistrate Graham Keil ordered her to pay $7044 compensation and provide $500 to the foundation.

Sentencing Butler in Frankston Magistrates Court, Mr Keil spoke about the difficulties routinely faced by police officers: "This [bomb hoax] can only be an aggravating feature," Mr Keil said.

Prior to the hoax last June, Butler wrote letters to the council complaining about the local sale of novelty fake breasts.

She then left a package outside the Frankston Council chambers as a protest against the sale of the novelty items and called police from a public phone box, telling them the package contained, "potentially explosive material".

A bomb squad robot was used to inspect the contents of the box which was found to contain two of the 'breast balls' in question and a bottle of Scotch.

Disruption caused by the hoax included the evacuation of the civic centre and the adjacent Centrelink building and the deployment of the bomb squad at a total cost of more than $7000.