PaCA – The ‘What If’ Questions

This blog is part of the series which will cover, in detail, the amendments to the Mental Health Act 1983 within the Policing and Crime Act 2017. This post is one of several which relates not the amendments themselves, but to the implications arising from them. For background to the series, see the introductory post […]

Inspector to Inspector

I’ve been a police inspector for most of my service – about fifteen of my twenty years so far. Regardless of what happens to me in the future, I will retire from the service having spent more time at this rank than any other. And what a position it is! – it’s an operational enough […]

Timing Is Everything

In 2016, the Welsh Assembly Government published a new Code of Practice to the Mental Health Act 1983. This followed on the update England had received the previous year. In many respects, there is now far greater concordance between the policing aspects of these two documents which certainly made it easier than it would have […]