Pub Quiz:  what’s the longest period of time someone can be held in a Mental Health Act 1983 “Place of Safety”?  Answer to follow within the post, but I’ll help you out whilst you scratch your head: the answer is neither 24hrs nor 36hrs! A new report has been published this week by His Majesty’s […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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