The latest annual publication from the Independent Office for Police Conduct is just out, covering their “Deaths during or following police custody or contact” for 2025/6 –  and you can find all the other IOPC reports for previous years on one of my resources pages. Across the five categories of deaths counted by the IOPC, […]

The latest PFD to mention “Right Care, Right Person” was published this week, after the death of Catherine Morgan in Kent in September 2024.  The PFD is primarily about the Metropolitan Police, however, as Catherine went missing from a south London mental health before travelling to Dover where she died by suicide as police officers […]

One particular canard from this week’s news of Axel Rudabukana’s (AR) transfer from Belmarsh to Broadmoor is the question of whether he’s entitled to benefits once in hospital. I didn’t realise this was such a difficult issue for some and I especially didn’t realise how deeply some would double down after it was explained to […]