The campaigning charity Inquest has published a new report on “Race, Death and British Policing“.  It’s tough stuff to read, no doubt at all.  That said, it’s probably important that we do and in particular because it contains testimony from families of those who have died in police custody set against a wide survey of […]

It is the deliberate will of Parliament that police powers under section 136 of the Mental Health Act cannot be used inside a dwelling.  We know this for a fact.  This provision was originally introduced by the 1959 MHA and there have been various suggestions or attempts to amend the provision.  In 2015, Sir Paul […]

I read yesterday for the first time of an investigation in to a mental health hospital restraint incident in Scotland which involved the police.  This post is just to note it briefly as worth following until the outcome is known, because it involves a Crown Office investigation and a referral to Police Investigations and Review […]