This is one of those posts I’ve done before but I’m now writing again in a different way because the situation just keeps on happening.  In the last weeks and months I’ve heard police officers say countless times that someone had become ‘sectioned’ when they absolutely had not!  This would rarely be a grave matter, […]

It’s a couple of years since I first wrote an explanatory post about what some people call ‘hybrid orders’ under s45A of the Mental Health Act. These are still comparatively rare, combining a period in hospital under the Mental Health Act with the possibility of being transferred to prison if inpatient care is no longer […]

##To the Tune of 500 Miles by the Proclaimers — “I would write 500 blogs And I might write 500 more Just to be the man who’d wrote a thousand blogs. On policing, mental health and law.” 500 BLOGS, but only really saying these same five things, over and over again in different ways — […]