This whole blog and various specific tales within it are testimony to my interest in, my commitment to and my passion to widen awareness about mental health issues within the police; and about policing challenges in our society when officers deal with mental health issues in various forms. A few months ago, I was posted […]

Here are two things that we learned today — 1.  One of HM Coroner’s Courts ruled that unnecessary force ‘more than minimally’ contributed to the death of a man with mental health problems in police custody. 2.  Earlier failures to monitor refusal to take prescribed medication and to arrange a mental health or Mental Health […]

The Mental Health Act 2007 introduced into English / Welsh law, the notion of supervised community treatment (SCT).  Up until this Act, most mental health patients were either detained in hospital or they were subject to no legal restrictions or obligations at all.  This new legislation allowed the discharge of patients into the community, subject […]