This post seeks to show the theory of many things I’ve written about, operating in practice: Christopher HAUGHTON from Wembley has today been found guilty of attempting to murder PC Tom HARDING and PC Alastair HINCHCLIFF in Kingsbury, North West London. He was also convicted of two offences of causing GBH with intent and two […]

Various topics I have written about include reference to situations where the police may or may not have a legal authority to enter private buildings – if need be, by using reasonable force – in connection with mental health related incidents. I want to cover this again, pulling it all into one post so that […]

An article was recently published in The Voice, regarding a concerns about the deployment of police officers into a mental health unit “in riot gear“.  Apart from having various reservations about the article itself which I’ll come on to shortly, I wanted to more generally cover the subject of this from the point of view […]