How confident are you about your knowledge?  I was told by an inspector when I joined in 1998 “knowledge is confidence” when it comes to policing and the law.  Now I’m at the opposite end my career I’m left with the contradiction we can’t also say “confidence is knowledge”.  Confidence, most certainly is NOT knowledge! […]

In September 2020, a series of stabbings took place in Birmingham city centre during which a man died and six others were seriously injured.  In 2021, Zephaniah McLeod was sentenced to 21yrs in prison, but also made subject to a hybrid order under s45A of the Mental Health Act 1983 which means he was taken […]

The Approved Mental Health Professionals were busy chatting on X-Twitter last week about Right Care, Right Person and one of them commented their local police force had started ‘triaging’ warrants under s135 MHA.  Another AMHP in the discussion quickly and correctly responded that 135 warrants are nothing to do with RCRP. For the avoidance of […]