This is the first of a few articles on human rights issues as they affect my area of interest. Of course, they are necessarily inexpert and superficial, aimed at raising general awareness amongst police officers and the public of the very basic tenants of domestic and international human rights. In this first post, I want […]

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and […]

“The threat of detention must not be used to induce a patient to consent to admission to hospital or to treatment.” — Code of Practice to the Mental Health Act 1983, paragraph 14.17. In a sense, this post is about something that is none of my business really … not something for the police.  But […]