The Training Debate

Discussion has started again about the training required by police officers around their role responding to vulnerable people – again the proposition is that officers need specific training on autism and learning disabilities. I’ve written about this before and was interested to re-read a post I wrote five years ago because I have since been […]

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Facebook Live?

For various reasons that aren’t important to explain, I’m considering requests to do some live broadcast ‘stuff’ on policing, mental health and criminal justice.  Especially, focussing on the legal side of all this and mainly for the emergency services.  That said, I found this BLOG had wider appeal despite original aiming it at police officers, […]

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Three Years Until 2022

A little medium and long-term thinking on mental health and its relationship with policing, if I may? We know from the last decade the problems the police service has tried to highlight and do something about. A large number of untoward incidents including deaths in police custody and fatal police shootings as well as more […]

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