136 at Hospital

A recent query from an officer and it made me think if someone is asking this, perhaps others are wondering or seeing the same thing? “We are experiencing a relatively recent trend of our local hospital applying a level of pressure to s136 individuals when we are in attendance there with them (we will have […]

“Refused to Help”

A number of mental health professionals have expressed concern something like this would happen and I mentioned recently that some were seeing signs of what I called “over-push”: an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) in Wales has been punched whilst attending a premises to conduct a Mental Health Act assessment, having asked for police support […]

Evidenced-Based

The last fifteen years has seen considerable effort, time and money put in to the development of initiatives to improve the situation on policing and mental health. We could talk for weeks – and I have – about what the precise problem is and I’ve written before asking “what problem are you trying to fix?” […]