A joint Criminal Justice Inspection (CJJI) undertaken by His Majesty’s Inspectorates of Constabulary, Crown Prosecution and Probation has this week released a report on victims of crime, not specifically related to mental health but I was obviously keen to see what it said about this.  Some years back, various universities were commissioned to look at […]

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I was recently asked whether RCRP addresses the issues flagged in the Code of Practice to the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) which require joint protocols on five topics between the police and statutory partners like mental health trusts, acute trusts (who run the Emergency Departments), ambulance and the local authority (who licence the Approved […]

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The killings of Mr Michael and Mrs Marjorie Cawdery were “entirely preventable”, according to His Majesty’s Coroner for Northern Ireland.  In a narrative verdict which took over four hours to fully outline, Maria Dougan summarised the detailed evidence heard earlier this year which indicated a lack of legal understanding amongst both police officers and mental […]

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