It is not often we see mental health issues played out within extradition proceedings quite so clearly as we are seeing them with the ongoing case of Shrien DEWANI.  For those of you who don’t know the case, there is a very comprehensive timeline of events in the Guardian, on which the following three paragraphs […]

You know when you say what you really think, and then really, Really, REALLY wished you’d phrased it better without wanting to withdraw the point you’re trying to make …. *that*! I often search @Twitter with the key words “police mental health” and see what’s been tweeted the world over.  Today, I came up with […]

A scenario for you:  999 services are called to a person on a bridge, either over a major road or a railway line, and the person is either overtly threatening suicide or has been doing or saying things which mean it must be presumed that a possible reason for being where they are is the […]