In 2021/2 a social media campaign using the twitter hashtag #StopSIM began in objection to a police-mental health programme which had been adopted in many areas.  You can read much of the detail of the scheme and the impress service user campaign to stop it on the impressively collated website.  If you don’t want the […]

Recent coverage by the BBC of a trial revealed a number of misunderstandings about criminal law where defendants are seriously mentally ill. Mohammed Nadeem was tragically killed in 2022 by Liam Hopson who was prosecuted for murder.  The BBC’s initial article covering the outcome was that Mr Hopson had been ‘convicted of murder’ and sentenced […]

The BBC has published another article about the increase in mental health callouts for the police.  This follows similar articles in previous years and is again based on reedom of Information Act requests to police forces. The article points out there has been a rise over the five years since 2017 and if you bear […]