It was revealed yesterday that I have been awarded the 2014 ConnectedCOPS Top Cop award at the Social Media In Law Enforcement Conference, or #SMILEcon as it’s tagged. This goes once step further that last year when I was short-listed for it. #SMILEcon 10 has just finished – the first time that the event has been staged outside north America […]

I couldn’t be more thrilled to have been given the chance to undertake a secondment to the College of Policing to coordinate their work on mental health. I’m still a West Midlands Police officer, but they’ve loaned me out to help with work that the College needs to do nationally. This is a total change […]

I’m amongst the first to admit that police officers lack the necessary training to ensure that they get s136 detention decisions consistently correct.  I’ve written about this before, offering my view as to how the dilemma should be approached.  I’ve also acknowledged the point made by some mental health professionals: that police officers occasionally use […]