OBE

I wrote this post in June 2016 and simply forgot to publish it. Having had a bit of a BLOG clear-out over Christmas where I’ve binned about thirty part-written blogs where I found myself just banging on again and again about the same old thing. However there were a couple I decided to keep and […]

I’m a Mental Health Professional

I’m a mental health professional – but I didn’t realise this when I first joined the police. When I retire, the operational incidents that will live with me beyond my career are almost exclusively those which have involved very vulnerable people. The poor guy who set himself on fire; the man who killed his mum […]

Oddly Enough …

Oddly enough … trying to wade your way through some of the most sensitive issues in all of public policy isn’t straight-forward. Deaths in police custody … the use of force on vulnerable people … when, if ever, to prosecute a vulnerable person … navigating ‘pathways’ and processes which span multiple criminal justice agencies and even […]