Structural Risk

My best guess is that when Inspector (then PC) Katie Eustace attended a disturbance in Nottingham involving criminal damage on 24th May 2020, she had absolutely no idea she would be sat six years later in a live-televised public inquiry, trying to recall and explain in intimate detail the various investigative considerations, lines of enquiry […]

The Nottingham Inquiry

The public inquiry in to the attacks in June 2023 in Nottingham begins today in London. This is the first public inquiry in to mental health homicides in the United Kingdom, to the best of Julian Hendy’s knowledge. It will examine the attacks on – Wayne Birkett Ian Coates Marcin Gawronski Grace O’Malley-Kumar Sharon Miller […]

The Core Business of Policing

I wrote this post at the end of last year but it became more relevant recently when the Home Secretary published a White Paper on police reform and decided to use the word “core” an awful lot of times! What is the “core business” or the “core role” of policing? – “Everything which follows in […]