Every now and then, from time to time, I really do wonder whether I’m actually just wasting my time here? Since I’ve spent sixteen months at the College of Policing, I’m almost exactly half-way through my current secondment and I will admit that I’ve actually started to miss operational policing and even shift work and […]

You’ve may heard the term ‘Excited delirium’? I wrote a blog on it a few years ago. You may also have heard the term ‘acute behavioural disturbance’ or ‘acute behavioural disorder’? … these things may, in fact, be the same thing. Or they may not be the same thing. Actually, it may be three separate things or […]

This BLOG has been some months in the thinking and making, including the need for me to pin down several people for a discussion. I’m grateful for their help, but I’ve decided to leave them un-named at this stage: because I want in no way to associate them with criticism of the ideas I sought them out […]