I’ve had a quiet few weeks on here.  As well as some time off over Easter when I took my son’s Under7 rugby team on a tour to Lancashire and had one of the BEST weekends for years, it has also been due to planning and work around our restructure at work and a massive […]

<<< This post is a continuation of a previous article on Suicide. SUICIDE BY COP Something which needs to be added to this ‘general’ duty to respond to suicide is a comparatively new phenomenon being somewhat inelegantly described as “Suicide by Cop”. It has been noted in several inquests or legally comparable hearings abroad, that […]

As a police duty inspector, you get informed of every sudden death – suspicious or otherwise.  You attend the suspicious ones and ensure detectives of varying seniority and forensic officers attend; but suicides are usually always intially presumed suspicious to be certain of a thorough examination of the circumstances.  Initial action is taken by the […]