When can you be searched by the police or mental health services, to establish whether you are carrying things that are either illegal or could be used to cause harm to you or anyone else? Not as straight-forward an answer as you might think, I’m afraid! … I’m going to split this into several categories […]

I am well aware that not everything I say on this blog is agreed by all who read it – I usually try to acknowledge those things I’m saying that are not agreed and present the other perspective.  Feel free to point where I’ve forgotten to do this.  This whole enterprise is a place where […]

I was delighted to hear this week, that I have been short-listed for an international award for police use of social media!  How cool is that?! All eyes on Omaha in the United States on 25th September – when the winner is announced! I find myself the only individual UK police officer to have been […]