It has come to my attention in recent weeks that not everyone in the media game are aware of the Samaritans Guidelines on the reporting of suicide.  Especially as new media gives rise to official organisations tweeting and blogging, there are new pitfalls.  One excellent twitter account within my force area recently wanted, quite rightly, […]

This post summarises the justice process, as it would apply to a hypothetical person with a mental illness. POLICING Initial Response – Professor PAJ WADDINGTON argued in his 1998 book, “Policing Citizens” that the police spend more time not enforcing the law, than they do enforcing it. This is no different for offenders with mental […]

Recently, I had emails via the very excellent Inspector Jan PENNY in Thames Valley Police, drawing me into a debate in her area about the use of section 136 in an Accident & Emergency department. The definition of s136 makes it plain that you can only exercise the power in “a place to which the […]