We hear this word ‘Beds’ a lot when we hear discussion of mental health services and it can get very confusing because the word is used to mean different things, not all of them literal. It happened earlier today during Prime Minister’s Question time in the House of Commons so I thought I’d again stress […]

There I was, enjoying a short break from almost two days of siege managing hundreds of emails like a real street cop and due to drive to a meeting when Nottinghamshire Police rang up with the question I have already declared to be the winner of the “most difficult legal question on policing and mental […]

What value do we place on personal experience, especially where it comes down to individual opinion? I’ve been struck recently by the number of attempts we make to infer from individual opinions and experiences, lessons which might influence our overall approach to things. Last night, I was interviewed by the BBC about policing and mental […]