Policing is inherently everything that good mental health care tries not to be, everything that it tries to minimise.  It’s coercive, even if only by implication, it’s also restrictive and can be stigmatising and criminalising.  Choose any decent textbook, guideline or Code of Practice on these matters and you will see prominent discussion about the […]

For a couple of years, I’ve been regularly reading the website of the Chief Coroner, in particular the section on Preventing Future Deaths and I’ve blogged about this before.  I had a discussion with an academic last year about the potential of me undertaking PhD research on PFD issues affecting policing and mental health, not […]

I’ve recently being doing some research on Preventing Future Death notices and putting together a list of notable examples around a few different themes.  The notice from January 2020 after the death of Mr Thiago Araujo is especially interesting around the topic of s135 MHA assessments and it’s not the first notice in recent years […]