My bio on twitter states I’m interested in criminalisation.  I’ve had comments made about my ‘mission’ to eradicate criminalisation: I want to make a few comments on this and I want to be absolutely clear at the start. If by criminalisation you mean that the access to necessary services if and only if you have […]

Quite a number of responses to my first blog on this subject, so I’m going to follow it up immediately, to address some queries that have been raised. HOW SHOULD THE POLICE RESPOND? … to allegations of crime? 1.  Ensure that the complaint made is a ‘first-party’ complaint.  The CJ system is victim-lead and the […]

I’ve been in loads of rooms with hundreds of police officers talking about mental health.  If you ask them which mental health related issues make them feel as if they’re left struggling, they will probably say “s136 MHA and getting into a Place of Safety.”  If they don’t say that, they’ll say “AWOL patients.”  Ask […]