I think I’ve explained that originally, my interest in this area of policing arose from professional frustrations; a professional lack of knowledge of what I could or could not do; what I must or must not do when responding to incidents.  I had no personal reasons to develop this interest and this crucially means I […]

This is a post which is not directly about policing and mental health, but about prisons and mental health.  I have decided to post about it because it shows the tangle into which you can get around understanding this law.  OK, it’s also because I got asked the question and hated to admit I didn’t […]

Interrupting my blog-posting hiatus because of a judgment from the UK Supreme Court in the case of Rabone and another v Penine Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust which was published this morning.  This case in now on the legal resources page of the blog. Following on from the case of Savage in 2007 where it was ruled that […]