Whenever we listen to families explaining what they want from investigations, inquiries or inquests after police contact deaths, we more often than not hear they just want “lessons to be learned” so other families don’t have to go through what they have been through.  Whenever we hear senior police officers (or senior people from non-police […]

You will no doubt have seen social media footage and / or mainstream media coverage of the case of a man on the London Underground who was subject to a use of force by members of the public.  I’m deliberately not widening distribution of that footage – it’s easy enough to find if you’re determined […]

As many of you know, I’m currently wading my way through literally hundreds of cases of mental health (MH) police contact deaths (PCDs) with the aim of identifying as many as possible for my PhD research. Of particular importance to me is the Preventing Future Deaths notices which result from just over 50% of all […]