There are some decisions at work you can’t just take one step at a time in light of events, you must sometimes plan for more than one eventuality.  You have to know before you get to the fork in the road, roughly what you will do as you move in each direction, even though you […]

In the overall scheme of UK Government spending, newly allocated money for mental health Liaison and Diversion (L&D) schemes in police custody is not that much, but we can agree that £25 million is still a substantial amount of money that we don’t want to misuse.  Bearing in mind that this is money allocated for […]

I sometimes remember to marvel at some of my colleagues and did so again over the Christmas period – ordinary men and women doing an extraordinary job, away from their friends and families whilst we were at home – (it was my turn to be off!)  Their pay has been frozen for the last few […]