The Big Reports

I’ve often referred to the stack of reports on my shelf at home which have been published over the years and touch upon my treasured Venn diagram of policing, mental health and criminal justice. Well, those thousands of pages all went for recycling recently and I decided to put links to them all on one post […]

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 […]

Minimum Standards

This one’s longer than normal – sorry! Thoughts just kept coming, so it’s probably best you put the kettle on first and ensure you have more than a few minutes! And treat yourself to a biscuit – non-chocolate hob nobs are best. There are a lot of conversations occurring nationally at the moment, at operational […]