I recently spent twenty pounds on a new publication from the Royal College of Psychiatrists on the “Prevention and Management of Violence”.  An edited compilation of short essays by various mental health professionals, mostly psychiatrists, the document seeks to update us all on the College’s view of this important topic.  It admirably lists a range […]

Once my interest in policing and mental health really got going, it seemed sensible to look at other countries to see the nature of challenges facing their police services and to see if responses differed and could offer something from which I could learn.  It didn’t take long to focus more on Canada and Australia […]

Where an AMHP has made an application for the admission of a patient under the Mental Health Act to hospital, they will often seek police support to safely achieve admission where patients indicate they will resist admission and detention.  Where do police officers get the authority to detain and convey patients and perhaps crucially, to […]