Again, your indulgence is craved on what is essentially a repeat-publication post.  I’ve argued that there are a dozen or so little nuggets of legal knowledge in the Code of Practice to the Mental Health Act that police officers really need to know in order to be effective but the introduction of a new Code […]

I have to crave your indulgence in this post, because I wrote and published much of it some years ago.  I’ve done a fair bit of cutting and pasting to put out something very similar all over again – let me explain why! The new Code of Practice to the Mental Health Act (2015) means […]

“You think I’m talking about breaking the law?!” “No, I’m just trying to figure out how far you want it bent!” “As far as you can, without breaking it!” — do you remember the film?! For as long as I’ve been in the police, officers have been trying to minimise the impact of the time […]