It was an eventful night in the UK’s House of Lords on Monday evening and my phone / email has been going all day long today.  Thank goodness I always have *ALL* my notifications turned off! – couldn’t have coped with that many unscheduled contacts in one day, as I was already double busy!  I […]

A new report has been published by think-tank Onward entitled “Policing in Peril” and it lead to an article in the Sun newspaper which is now bouncing around X (Twitter) claiming the police are spending 800,000-hrs a year “waiting with mental health patients” which is “losing valuable policing time”.  Against my instincts and regular reading […]

Earlier this year, a review in to policing and mental health in New South Wales, Australia was published after a succession of incidents which caused concern amongst the public and in Coroners’ Courts. Amongst other observations, the report recommended senior officers from New South Wales look at the UK’s “Right Care, Right Person” programme with […]