If you’re a police officer, a member of the public or a mental health professional and you just want to cut through all then faff, see this operational summary for police officers I’ve produced. It’s just a dozen bullet points and although it’s written for officers, it will make sense to others. If you want to […]

Several discussions and questions recently about Appropriate Adults (AA) in police custody for vulnerable people that I want to quickly cover. In case you’re not aware, an Appropriate Adult is someone who, according to the Codes of Practice to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 must be called to police custody for anyone under the […]

Since September 2014, when I started at the College of Policing, we have been working on the development of a document about those situations where the police are called to a mental health or learning disability unit and asked to do something coercive. I’ve been on mental health wards many times, as an operational police […]