This is a guest post from a police inspector in England. You can follow blogger and tweeter NathanConstable and he has been kind enough to give feedback that he’s putting this blog to good use.  Here are some of his observations from the frontline of UK policing – right where the rub is: I have […]

The issue of how to better identify people with mental health problems in police custody keeps coming up.  It was raised in the Bradley Review (summary) and there have been various suggestions over the years.  Last year, an initiative started in Lambeth police custody and there have been recent calls to specifically improve screening for women’s […]

Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements are information and risk sharing procedures which are required by law, following the Criminal Justice Act 2003. MAPPA is intended to ensure that potential risks posed by violent and / or sexual offenders are properly understood and managed as well as they can be to prevent further serious offending and […]