I keep encountering stories of incidents where potentially very serious crimes may have been committed and the criminal justice system appears to take no action because we have ‘transferred the person into the care of mental health professionals’ or similar.  Responses to crime where we fully and completely divert people into the mental health system without […]

A few months ago, I was asked if I would write a short piece for the College of Policing newsletter to coincide with Mental Health Awareness week.  I never did get ’round to publishing it on the BLOG, so here it is, reproduced below.  Remembering to do this now nicely coincides with another development for me […]

Mental health has been creeping up the agenda in policing for some while now.  I will confess to mixed feelings about this progress and I imagine that might surprise you.  On the one hand, I’ve spent years banging on about mental health in the hope of its importance being recognised and slowly but surely, it […]