Earlier this year, a review in to policing and mental health in New South Wales, Australia was published after a succession of incidents which caused concern amongst the public and in Coroners’ Courts. Amongst other observations, the report recommended senior officers from New South Wales look at the UK’s “Right Care, Right Person” programme with […]

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Discussion has emerged on X (Twitter) about whether AMHPs should be using section 2 or section 3 when they make Mental Health Act 1983 applications to hospitals for patients assessed in the community and it’s becoming really interesting.  It follows the very sad case of Matthew Lynch who was killed in his garden in Handsworth, […]

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The death of Mr Parminder Sanghera in February 2023 was a very sad event. A coroner’s jury has found he died by drowning in the canal adjacent to the Oldbury police custody block in the West Midlands area shortly after his release from there. I was the duty inspector for the area when Mr Sanghera’s […]

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