Across a range of posts I have written, I have alluded to what we should try to call “suicide prevention”.  The police have a crucial role to play for very obvious reasons, as we are often called to crisis situations where other options are limited, or where the nature of the crisis becomes an emergency.  […]

Today we learned that two police officers would be prosecuted for misconduct in public office following the death from positional asphyxia of Colin Holt just over two years ago. This detention caused various commentators on Twitter to talk about the inherent difficulties, sometimes hidden, of using s136 of the Mental Health Act.  Colin Holt had […]

I’ve got a feeling I’ve written about this before, several times … but never in one post.  It has become necessary because of various things written over the last few weeks about s136 MHA and purported rises in its use.  I wrote recently about a 135% reported rise in the use of s136 MHA, reported […]