One evening in I was driving around my area after 1am when I was called to some job or other – I was the acting inspector for the division that night, the senior officer.  Whilst driving to it, I saw a man who would have attracted my attention if I hadn’t been on the way […]

The simplest way I can explain how the police should approach determining whether they will attend a Mental Health Act assessment in a private premises by an AMHP, the whole debate about s135(1) Mental Health Act and what they should consider before they get to a location, is to explain how I’d react to a […]

In 1988, the Memphis Police Department shot and killed a mental health patient amidst a crisis incident to which they had been called.  This incident served as a catalyst for a total re-examination of police approaches to incidents involving mental illness.  It is something I have been pushing for in the UK for 5yrs or […]