When we hear some commentators discuss the impact upon policing of things like mental health related demands, we often hear the words of the Home Secretary tripped out to defend a preferred view that such things are not core police business.  The Home Secretary said in a Police Federation conference that it was the role […]

Dear Santa, I think I’ve worked hard this year – managed to write a couple of hundred blog posts and put out tens of thousands of tweets to raise awareness within the police and beyond of various aspects of this stuff I’m interested in.  As a result of the profile it has all gained, I have […]

In a recent multi-agency event about the difficulties in our interface between mental health and criminal justice a classic scenario was hypothesised in order to raise questions for discussion about who bore responsibility for someone in a particular circumstance.  How could agencies work together quite creatively to support each other and how could someone who […]