The Home Office and Department of Health and Social Care have today published the National Partnership Agreement, as part of scaling-up Right Care, Right Person, the policing and mental health initiative first developed by Humberside Police which has been running for three years.  The document is endorsed by the National Police Chiefs Council, the Association […]

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A new Preventing Future Death report from His Majesty’s Coroner for Birmingham and Solihull, Mr James Bennett.  It touches upon the death of Mr Peter Fleming in 2022. Mr Bennett raises a number of ‘matters of concern’ in his statutory notice, but I simply want to quote from the first of them — “There continues […]

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Many areas of the country continue to consider the introduction of the “Right Care, Right Person” approach to policing and mental health which began in Humberside in 2020.  In recent days, a public meeting of the Surrey Police and Crime Panel took place where the issues of police involvement in mental health calls was discussed […]

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