Refreshed Resources

After approximately two years of effort(!), I have finally managed to update this blog a little, especially as it grows in size. Several years back, I changed the “theme” of it (ie, the look) to freshen it up and it meant many hundreds of different posts and pages were no longer formatted correctly and it […]

A Trial of the Facts

This post is about a very tragic event and the aftermath, involving a man who killed his own father whilst seriously mentally ill and his sister’s subsequent forgiveness. Adam Merritt was found unfit to stand trial at Peterborough Crown Court after being charged with murder. He had lived with schizophrenia since he was a teenager […]

The Police Race Action Plan

In 2022, the National Police Chiefs Council and the College of Policing published the Police Race Action Plan (“the plan”). This is not specific to mental health and policing, but it does contain many references to the overlap, hence this short post to emphasise what has been proposed. The plan contains much which is general […]