It was announced on 03rd March 2012 that James Q Wilson, US political scientist, had died, aged 80. Wilson was author, along with George Kelling, of potentially the most important piece of writing about modern policing: Broken Windows. For those connected to policing, it is worth half an hour of anyone’s life to read this […]

PC David Rathband 1968 – 2012 It is tragic to get up this morning and learn of the death of PC David Rathband whose life was irrevocably changed in July 2010 when he was shot and blinded in an unprovoked attack with a firearm. He was found dead at his home in Northumberland last night […]

There has been some posting and tweeting recently about mental health in A&E, and very interesting it is too.  Against a backdrop of questions about what A&E can do, what they can’t do; what care they give for people who self-present or are brought in by ambulance.  Amidst such conversations during the work I did […]