There was a point as a young officer, when I got really frustrated by my inability to always do the right thing at work. In mental health terms, this could include working in a city where no place of safety (PoS) service existed at all and as a consequence I spent countless hours and days […]

This blog is a difficult one: when my name was read out at the Mind Awards, one of the loudest ‘whoops’ in the room came from Paul Jenkins, Chief Executive of Rethink.  He was kind enough to congratulate me afterwards and from the leader of one of our country’s major mental health charities, it is […]

I’m hoping to get far more guest bloggers in during 2013 and couldn’t be more pleased that ‘The Boss’ for the police on mental health & disability has undertaken the first of these.  There is loads of work going on at senior levels on policing and mental health, much of it unseen and as ACPO […]