In a recent training event with Approved Mental Health Professionals, the subject came up (AGAIN and AGAIN, actually) about what I call “no warrant, no police” – This is the practice of police forces responding to requests for officers to attend Mental Health Act assessments in private premises by saying “unless the AMHP has a […]

I was wondering to someone only last week whether there had been any equality impact assessments for Right Care, Right Person and whilst googling searching for something else entirely, I stumbled across the Metropolitan Police equality impact assessment, completed in 2023. Naturally, I was quite intrigued to read it! I had to stop reading after […]

My best guess is that when Inspector (then PC) Katie Eustace attended a disturbance in Nottingham involving criminal damage on 24th May 2020, she had absolutely no idea she would be sat six years later in a live-televised public inquiry, trying to recall and explain in intimate detail the various investigative considerations, lines of enquiry […]