Mental Health or Crime?

The Right Care, Right Person narrative is that policing needs to move away from what I will call the crisis care stuff in order to focus on crime. Of course, RCRP leaders are rightly keen to stress crisis incidents which involve crime or involve and immediate risk to life or risk of serious injury should […]

Just Signing the Papers

Where an Approved Mental Health Professional has completed a Mental Health Act assessment and decided to ‘section’ a patient, it’s not uncommon to encounter difficulty identifying an available psychiatric bed. This is an understatement, to be fair – in my more recent experience, it’s rare to find a bed is available in less than “several […]

New Home Office 136 Data

The Home Office has today published the latest data on various police powers, which includes use of s136 Mental Health Act 1983. You can access the full data for yourself, but for the purpose of making a few headline points about what I’ve just read, I’ve highlighted a few forces below and covered certain aspects […]