I was humbled over a week ago to find myself nominated for @TheTweetAwards_ as “The Most Informative Tweeter”.  I’d never heard of the tweet awards, to be honest, but @RoulaRoo (a twitter account run by 3 Dalmatians!) quite unexpectedly put me forward and things went from there!  OK: there was a degree of lobbying and […]

When I was promoted to sergeant, I had to cover 24/7 duties for my area as a ‘response’ sergeant but I was also given a ‘patch’ – or ‘beat 36’ as it was imaginatively called.  With my fellow sergeant we covered this diverse area, which included the ‘village centre’ of a diverse city suburb and […]

“Exclusion criteria” is my term for those aspects of someone’s presentation which often mean a person detained under s135/6 of the Mental Health Act are denied access to a Place of Safety in a psychiatric setting with a presumption that it will be possible, legal and safe to detain them in police cells.  (Occasionally, a […]