It’s been a feature of the national conversation about policing and mental health for a while: we learn of partner organisations struggling to secure police involvement in mental health incidents which they believe require it or where the law demands. I’m not getting involved in this post with the debate about whether all of those […]

I made passing comment in the last post I wrote about crime recording rules and I’m assuming you’ve nothing better to do on a Sunday than read about statistical counting procedures put together for the purposes of not-really-understanding-crime at all because a lot of it is not reported to the police? This issue arose recently […]

It’s been a very complex and sensitive subject to discuss for many, many years: when, if ever, is it “right” to prosecute someone who is encountered by the police and emergency services on the adverse side of a motorway bridge barrier, if the situation appears to relate to their mental health? There are only three […]