Duty of Care

Last week’s topic seems to have been discussions about the ‘duty of care’, real or imagined, which may be owed by the police. Firstly, Inspector Huw Griffiths from Hampshire Police mentioned this a lot when he presented brilliantly at the National Mental Health Forum CPD Event in Birmingham; secondly, it came up on the Masked […]

A Letter to Me

Dear PC BROWN, . Welcome to West Midlands Police! I can still remember very vividly how you felt on Monday 16th February 1998 as you walked through the door of Tally Ho! in Birmingham (don’t forget the exclamation mark) to join West Midlands Police, as you just have. Having wanted to be a police officer […]

Get Serious

I doubt many police officers reading this will spend much of their time lurking around mental health forums for nurses, AMHPs and others. A few who work in this area do, and of course there’s also an email based MH law forum that includes a lot of legal professionals who specialise in mental health law. […]