<<< This is a continuation of another post – Part 1. APPROPRIATE ADULTS Of course, this links to broader issues about appropriate adults which I worry about.  I think those who are autistic and find themselves arrested are particularly at risk with this next point: appropriate adults are required by PACE for anyone who is […]

Autism is the one sub-category of mental disorder which I believe warrants a special consideration in how the police service approaches its responses to individuals and to incidents.  Argubaly, this is necessary in order to challenge the notion that it is a mental disorder at all.  Debate about that is ongoing an depending upon whether […]

The use of force by the police in relation to incidents involving mental disorder is the thing that has occupied my thoughts this month. Always controversial, often very necessary, but occasionally capable of question in terms of how the situation was brought about that it fell to the police to use force; or how situations […]