Let’s be honest from the outset: police time spent investigating the whereabouts of missing people is sometimes accompanied by a background of frustration.  In my own experience this is often the case when the person who has gone missing is ‘persistent’ because of the number of times they have ‘gone missing’ and this is especially […]

Policing mental health issues has got the ability to get complex, for reasons outlined in other blogs. However, what a police area needs to have in place to tackle it effectively is remarkably simple. Sometimes, it is ongoing debates about ‘where mental health sits‘ that prevent the recognition of this simplicity. I once wrote ‘one […]

A couple of years ago, when helping to write national guidelines for the police, I was introduced to the word ‘Welshified’.  It was explained to me that the way in which those guidelines were initially drafted ‘wouldn’t work in Wales’ because there was a different Code of Practice.  Within a few days I had read […]