Imagine you are driving your car along a main road in my policing area and you manage to transgress a red traffic light, having recognised too late that you were approaching a controlled junction. I’ve spotted this violation and pull you over just after the junction with a colleague. Imagine the interaction went like this […]

Yesterday in Parliament the Care Bill 2013 reached its report stage in the House of Commons.  I learned via social media that certain MPs, including former care minister Paul BURSTOW and former GP and police surgeon Dr Sarah WOLLASTON, have tabled an amendment to the Bill, additionally suggesting that the words “police station” be removed from s135(6) […]

This post is now out-of-date: the Code of Practice was updated in 2015 and all of the paragraph reference numbers below are now incorrect for the new edition. You can read an update post here. The Code of Practice to the Mental Health Act 1983 is almost four hundred pages long, divided into thirty-odd chapters […]