Following various discussions on Twitter about crisis care responses and policing, @DrEm_79 has undertaken a short study to gauge the views of the most important people of all: those who rely on public services when things become very difficult. This is the first of two posts resulting from that research survey and I hope you […]

One of the main reasons the Home Secretary emphasised that we need to make progress on policing and mental health is to free up police time to concentrate on other issues – mainly around the broader crime prevention agenda. I don’t think she is trying to imply that police time so the most important thing […]

This is really difficult post – and it’s necessary because I’ve often thought in policing and mental health we spend a lot of time avoiding the really difficult conversations and picking the low hanging fruit. I would argue that much of the time spent discussing Place of Safety provision, street triage schemes and liaison and […]