During a discussion this week about police responses to particular types of individuals who come to police attention a question was put about acute anti-social personality disorder.  It revolved around a man who had been in contact with the police on at least one occasion in every year since 1999 and situations typically revolved around […]

Alan Bailey from Greater Manchester suffered from Alzheimer’s and was sectioned under the Mental Health Act in March 2011.  He fell whilst in hospital in April 2011 and subsequently died – a true tragedy for him and for his family. The manner of his being ‘sectioned’ under the Mental Health Act has featured in the […]

I read a news article this week about another independent review into the treatment and care received by a mental health patient who went on to commit a serious offence.  The review argued that there were three major opportunities for mental health services to intervene which ‘may’ have prevented the killing. (Incidentally, another way of […]