Not Just Doing the Wrong Thing Righter

This post was first published by the N8 Policing Research Partnership, subsequent to their event on policing and mental health, hosted by the University of Lancaster in November 2018. The profile of mental health issues as a thematic in policing has risen considerably over the last fifteen years. In addition to a number of high-profile […]

Telephone Triage

A curious thing appeared on the internet recently: a preventing future deaths report from the Warwickshire Coroner, which has been sent to the Chief Executive of Birmingham and Solihull’s Mental Health Trust (BSMHfT). It follows the death of a man by suicide, thirteen days after the BSMHfT street triage (ST) scheme had contacted with a […]

Acute Intoxication is a Mental Disorder

The longer I work on policing and mental health, the less frequently I experience certain things which used to hit me square in the face every time I went near the topic as a PC: a new piece of knowledge that leaves you entirely confused and thoroughly re-examining the paradigm you’re trying to get your […]