This year, I was privileged to be asked by Chief Superintendent Irene CURTIS, President of the Police Superintendents’ Association of England and Wales (PSAEW) to run a workshop at their annual conference in Warwickshire along with Supt Paul BARTOLOMEO from Hampshire Constabulary. This blog is intended both for those who were able to attend and […]

It is my massive pleasure to publish a guest blog from Dr Jenny HOLMES who is a psychiatrist, a police doctor and works with the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine.  That combination of background and experience should indicate that what you are about to read is an insightful, thoughtful contribution to the fallout from […]

So last night’s BBC Panorama was always up against it – all of policing and mental health in less than 30 minutes. We saw very human stories and in keeping with the proportions I see at work, most of them involved people with serious mental health problems who were actually arrested for a criminal offence, […]