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 […]

Acute Intoxication is a Mental Disorder

The longer I work on policing and mental health, the less frequently I experience certain things which used to hit me square in the face every time I went near the topic as a PC: a new piece of knowledge that leaves you entirely confused and thoroughly re-examining the paradigm you’re trying to get your […]

Let’s Do The Maths

Look back to when I joined the police are you’ll see that crime levels, measured either by police recorded crime or by the British Crime Survey, were much higher – but if you look at statistics on use of s136 of the Mental Health Act, the quality of them has not always been great, but […]