I want to highlight a few issues around Learning Disabilities – not least because it is Learning Disabilities Week 2012.  This is not only to provide information with links for the benefit of police officers who may need to know more – most of us do; but also briefly covering some issues for the benefit […]

Around this 30th anniversary of the Falklands War I have been thinking about veterans and their mental health.  I’m not really sure where this post will go as I start writing it, because early internet browsing makes me already realise that we don’t know as much about this subject as we need to. I decided […]

A very rare psychiatric disorder is at the heart of this story — folie à deux, sometimes known as ‘shared psychotic disorder’. I remember flicking on the TV one evening to find my colleagues from the Central Motorway Police Group in one of those ‘fly on the wall’ things.  I often used to pay passing attention […]