Stress-Testing Contingencies

About a decade ago, I was pottering about as the duty inspector in south Birmingham when a full-scale police mobilisation of public order units was ordered. This involves having to get together a sergeant and seven constables on to van, all of them ‘level two trained’ in public order tactics – riot police, to you […]

Refusing s135(1) Warrants

This brief post is just a complaint on behalf of AMHPs everywhere. In recent weeks and months, I have received queries from AMHP services and AMHPs who are at jobs, for my advice on how to handle a situation where they have sworn out a warrant from a Magistrate under s135(1) and, having organised a […]

One Great Thing

I’ve just deleted about half a dozen draft blogs, none of them finished … I tried to write a few things over the last fortnight and just became interminably bored, quite honestly, for the fact that I was just saying the same thing, over and Over and OVER again. This is what I was going […]