I’m going to take myself to the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, later today – the Royal College of Psychiatrists is holding its 2015 International Congress in my adopted city, the place where I started my policing career and got interested in mental health issues.  In February, Professor Sir Simon WESSLEY invited me to attend […]

The BLOG tripped quietly over the one million hits mark earlier today —  I have been laughing and smiling all morning: the idea of a BLOG written by a policeman moaning about mental health and capacity law as well as health guidelines being read over a million times is fairly hilarious. A month or more […]

Remember when you were at school at your handed in your maths homework, they would check your answers and your methods?  Having been asked to do 11×44, you wrote ‘484’ (probably because you did it with a calculator?!) and then the teacher declined to give the extra marks as you’d not shown your working out?! […]