Please Stop Saying “Has Capacity”

It literally doesn’t mean anything to say somebody “has capacity” – or they “lack capacity”, for that matter. It didn’t mean anything when I started writing this blog and it doesn’t really mean anything now. You may have gathered, it makes me want to scream every time I hear it because I’ve done quite a […]

IOPC Mental Health Bulletin

The Independent Office for Police Conduct publishes a series of bulletins entitled “Learning the Lessons”. They are intended to highlight and summarise various IOPC investigations with a view to ensuring the wider police service thinks about what needs contemplating from those investigations. Episode 43 of their series is exclusively focussed on mental health in policing […]

Criminal Cases Review Commission

In 2011, two devastating, unprovoked attacks took place in south London which gave rise to a number of issues of interest, for those following this website. Nicola Edgington was subsequently convicted of murder and attempted murder, for her attacks on Sally Hodkin and Kerry Clark and imprisoned. She was subsequently transferred to Rampton high secure […]