This is a guest post by Em, or @DrEm_79 from Twitter – our various discussions on there made me realise she has a lot to say that is important and relevant for police officers responding to mental health crisis incidents. I think there’s a lot going on here and much of it is contradictory: but […]

It was several years ago that I first sat in a room listening to a mental health professional delivering legal training to the police about mental health and capacity law and found myself thinking, “But that’s not right!” More than once I’ve had cause to review protocols between the police and mental health services which […]

This short post covers the main admission frameworks of the Mental Health Act 1983, in limited detail for the benefit of police officers and the public. Advance notice is hereby given(!) that AMHPs or psychiatrists will find this superficial.  The purpose here is to make two wider points for police officers, after briefly reminding or […]