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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It was made known this week that a police inspector will face misconduct proceedings over their initial handling of a missing person’s investigation in 2020 where a detained patient absconded from a private mental health unit in Birmingham. Matthew Caseby had been admitted to the Priory Hospital in Edgbaston after being sectioned in Oxford. The […]

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This post is about so-called “swing beds”, a term used by the Care Quality Commission in one of its annual reports for the practice of using the space in a “section 136 suite” or Place of Safety (PoS) as a location in which to admit or hold a patient who requires urgent admission, when there […]

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