For as long as I’ve worked in this area, the issue most often highlighted to me as being the one where the police, probably need to improve has been that of criminal investigation of hospital inpatients where they have allegedly assaulted NHS staff.  There has been some recent activity on this issue and those of […]

The following opinion piece appeared in the Namibian newspaper on 12th April 2016.  It follows the Namibian Correctional Service re-running training on mental health for their staff after the pilot programme I ran in Namibia during 2015.  It was slightly edited by the newspaper as these things are, here is the full version – The first […]

You’ll remember that the Home Office introduced a Bill to Parliament in February 2015 to make various reforms to policing itself and to laws affecting the police and I did a short BLOG post on the topic? Amongst other things, the Policing and Crime Bill 2015 will amend police powers under the Mental Health Act […]