If you are a mental health or social care professional, the police need you to know some ‘stuff’ when it comes to their involvement in mental health incidents and Mental Health Act procedures. I’ve written this to help oil the wheels of understanding because I keep being told in response to this blog and Twitter […]

There are various references to children throughout posts I have done so far, but it has been suggested I bring together in one piece a few thoughts about police dealings with children with mental health problems.  I think it might take a couple of posts so I thought I’d start with s136 Mental Health Act […]

For those of you who use Twitter, you should search the hash tag #polmh and you’ll see a useful discussion this evening loosely around policing and mental health.  I wanted to record something of a summary of what (for me, at least) was a fairly chaotic thread of tweets! We had contributors from the following […]