That was quite an unexpected day! The IPCC published a summary of one of their investigations along with the recommendations they have made to Sussex Police following a series of serious incidents in which a young person was arrested or detained. Sussex Police have accepted that a total of 12 police officers misconducted themselves and […]

The Royal College Of Emergency Medicine and the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine have today published a new best practice guideline on the topic of Acute Behavioural Disturbance. All 999 response officers, first-responders and street triage police officers need to know about them bearing in mind the number of deaths following police custody or […]

Did you see the recent piece by an anonymous NHS bed manager in the Guardian about being scapegoated on behalf of the NHS for the ‘beds crisis’? – if not, it’s worth pausing already to read the link before going any further. It really did set me thinking because of the various references to the […]