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 […]

Voluntary Attenders

It’s been the fashion for a few years to suggest we need to reduce the amount of times the police service uses s136 MHA. No-one quite understands who made the unilateral decision that it was over-used and we know already that attempts to focus upon its reductions have been problematic. Once upon a time, I […]

Ignorantia Juris non Excusat

As the years go on, I do find that the posts I write are becoming replicas of other posts I’ve previously written. Indeed, sometimes I write and then think, “I’ve covered this before” and then just stop and delete the draft, content that it’s already been said. However, this time I’m going to write a […]