I suspect forces and their mental health partners are going to need to have some properly serious discussions later in the year about the role of police services on psychiatric wards: it’s one of those discussion I alluded to in a previous post that we often dance around or try not to have but incidents […]

Many times in my career, along with every other police officer in the country, I’ve been called upon to do something as part of someone else’s contingency plan – can the police support paramedics in attending an address, because it’s flagged as being connected to violence; can the police attend an address on their own […]

This post follows a short piece of service-user survey work by @DrEm_79 (from Twitter) – the nature of this is it produces a longer piece than normal BLOG post, but I can assure you it’s worth reading all the way through. Alongside the first post, it offers important insights in to crisis care responses involving […]