Please watch this video from The Invictus Trust, in Cornwall and read their website for the story of their origins. Invictus is an amazing and still small charity trying to bring good from tragedy, in an area of the UK where suicide rates are higher than the average and where 75% of those who take […]

This week on tweets I’m going to focus on “Mental Health Act Assessments on Private Premises” and section 135(1) MHA. (You can follow in Twitter, via the link on the right hand column of the blog.)  This follows the disturbing case of Mr Peter Russell, a dementia patient who has subject to the police use […]

This is a continuation of previous post >>> Part 1. THE RATIONALISATION OF THE USE OF FORCE It was commented that much time and effort was spent by both the NHS professionals AND by the police, attempting to resolve this situation without resort to force.  Officers are not allowed to ‘escalate’ to higher levels of […]