In early March, Humberside Police were called to an incident where an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) and two Doctors had ‘sectioned’ a 59yr old man who suffered early onset dementia.  The MHA assessment did not initially involve the police – one presumes because the mental health professionals predicted no need for their involvement.  After the […]

A couple of years ago I worked for two years with @UKprisonhealth on the West Midlands s136 place of safety work – trying to get NHS provision, of the right standard, in all local authority areas across the region.  He is a psychiatric nurse by background, working at the time in Offender Health in the […]

When I started Tweeting, I anticipated dialogue with all manner of service-users, professionals and carers concerning incidents where the police had become involved in mental health issues of all kinds.  I predicted that this engagement may be valuable, not just in terms of being able to explain police processes and law to people who wanted […]