The Independent Office for Police Conduct publishes a series of bulletins entitled “Learning the Lessons”.  They are intended to highlight and summarise various IOPC investigations with a view to ensuring the wider police service thinks about what needs contemplating from those investigations. Episode 43 of their series is exclusively focussed on mental health in policing […]

In 2011, two devastating, unprovoked attacks took place in south London which gave rise to a number of issues of interest, for those following this website.  Nicola Edgington was subsequently convicted of murder and attempted murder, for her attacks on Sally Hodkin and Kerry Clark and imprisoned. She was subsequently transferred to Rampton high secure […]

Following the dreadful, terrible killings and attacks in Nottingham last year, a series of reviews was announced after the sentencing of Valdo Calocane.  There are many reviews ongoing in to policing and healthcare as well as prosecution and court decisions — the first of them has reported today, March 25th. His Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service […]