I turn fifty today – so happy birthday to me! I didn’t really do anything radical or treat myself to anything when I turned thirty or forty, so I decided a while back I should think about things for the present occasion. A comedian I recently saw pointed out being propelled in to your fifties […]

Officers attend a mental health incident in private premises where section 136 Mental Health Act 1983 cannot be used. The situation is volatile and threatening, sufficiently so they could justify detaining the man to prevent a Breach of the Peace because those present have been threatened and are at risk. Exam question: if they use […]

Some years ago, the (then) Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigated two separate incidents in a police force in the north of England where two separate ‘concern for welfare’ calls had been received. The call handlers had failed to identify that what was, in fact, being described was a missing person – probably because the […]