In May 2004 Martin Constable assaulted one of his psychiatric nurses, Helen Kelly.  He inflicted life altering injuries which caused her to be off work for over six months and shattered her professional confidence. Constable also went on the smash-up a Doctor’s office at Penn Hospital in Wolverhampton and despite this matter being reported to […]

Should the police remain at a place of safety once they have arrived at the location? – to be clear at the outset, I’m referring to the psychiatric place of safety to which most people are removed.  I am not referring to A&E when it used because of additional medical emergency or physical injury – […]

It is important we understand at the outset: this Mental Capacity Act stuff can cause nightmares for partnership working because of the number of myths which already exist and because the police and many parts of the NHS have had little or no training.  I’m going to do a couple of posts on it – […]