There are a few blogs in my ‘drafts’ folder, which I’ve resisted publishing because they relate to frustrations I had with my former employer’s approach to mental health policy and practice in policing.  The topic for this post is one on which I’d started drafting thoughts a couple of times but only after today did […]

The latest annual publication from the Independent Office for Police Conduct is just out, covering their “Deaths during or following police custody or contact” for 2025/6 –  and you can find all the other IOPC reports for previous years on one of my resources pages. Across the five categories of deaths counted by the IOPC, […]

The latest PFD to mention “Right Care, Right Person” was published this week, after the death of Catherine Morgan in Kent in September 2024.  The PFD is primarily about the Metropolitan Police, however, as Catherine went missing from a south London mental health before travelling to Dover where she died by suicide as police officers […]