It’s not very often at all, that I could highlight the use of an insanity defence.  They are comparatively, very rare indeed.  You will probably recall the incident at a Birmingham mosque in June of last year where a man stabbed worshippers before turning on the police officers who answered the 999 call and were […]

I won’t lie: you often hear cops grumbling about being “social workers”. This usually accompanies tasks that are not seen as “real police work” (whatever that is) and any analysis of policework is going to have to address this extent to which policing is predominantly not about crime. Even where it does involve crime, it […]

A short, somewhat functional post in order to increase ease of navigation around this (ever-expanding!) site.  There are numerous ways of looking for different things on this blog and certain parts of it may be more relevant to some people than others.  As such you can think about the following things and the links will […]