It was publicly reported yesterday that Axel Rudakubana, who killed three little girls in Southport in 2024 and serious injured countless more, has been transferred from Belmarsh prison in London, to Broadmoor hospital in Berkshire, which is one of the UK’s four “high secure” hospitals along with Rampton (Nottinghamshire), Ashworth (Merseyside) and Carstairs (Scotland). This transfer […]

If we are going to talk about deaths after police contact – and I think we should – then at some stage we are going to have to define what they are.  Some have tried – the current stuff on this is not great, and for a few different reasons we might need to think […]

I’d love to read the equality impact assessments for Right Care, Right Person – if there is one.  I know some forces don’t have one, others do and it must be fascinating to contemplate it.  The programme, as I’ve covered many times on here, is predicated on the idea of taking an area of social […]