There has been an 8% rise (at least) in the use of s136 of the Mental Health Act 1983, in the year ending March 2022.  In one force areas there has been a 55% increase in the use of this power in a single year – West Midlands Police rose from 1,221 to 1,888.  We’ve […]

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Having spent plenty of time reading Preventing Future Death (PFD) reports from inquests, I’ve recently been reading through independent reviews of NHS treatment and care.  I hadn’t realised quite as many of them are easily gathered in one place and they are providing fascinating, for largely similar reasons. In this post, I want to highlight […]

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A jury in Norfolk this week has returned a critical conclusion to the inquest in to the death of Krystian Kilkowski in 2020 – Mr Kilkowski died on his 32nd birthday after being restrained by the police for one hour amidst officers and the Force Control room ringing the ambulance service no fewer than six […]

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