We’ve been seeing interest in the US approach to policing and mental health for some while now – more recently, since these issues became a feature of interest in British policing and as part of the continuing interest that British policing generally has in American law enforcement. There is much of interest in the United […]

I didn’t take very long of being more than superficially absorbed in this area of interest before people started recommending I read various mental health related books.  Some of them were very general texts like the Willan Handbook of Forensic Mental Health and actually, for me, this became something of a substitute to being able […]

This blog is by Ella SHAW, author of Trying My Patients — it struck a chord with me for various reasons that will all become clear and is reproduced with permission.  Apart from the very obvious 999 grandstanding about purported superior knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act compared to one of Her Majesty’s finest constables(!), it […]