/ April 1, 2019 at 7:38 PM
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You know when you don’t get a question on section 5 of the Mental Health Act for ages and then three come along at once?! That … typical. It struck me the three queries grouped by theme would make a…
/ April 1, 2019 at 6:31 AM
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/ March 30, 2019 at 6:11 PM
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Interesting situation on Twitter this morning which I thought it would make a decent BLOG post. It related to someone who had been removed to a Place of Safety by police officers under s136 and after a suitable handover, the…
/ March 24, 2019 at 10:09 AM
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Last week’s topic seems to have been discussions about the ‘duty of care’, real or imagined, which may be owed by the police. Firstly, Inspector Huw Griffiths from Hampshire Police mentioned this a lot when he presented brilliantly at the…
/ March 23, 2019 at 8:23 AM
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I spent the first hour of my Saturday responding to all the ill-informed comments on the Northumbria Police facebook page, after their media release following the conviction of Ethan Mountain at Newcastle Crown Court yesterday. He was convicted of manslaughter…
/ March 22, 2019 at 7:13 AM
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I took a phone call last week from police force X, seeking advice. A patient who had absconded from a mental health unit in police force X had turned up in a hotel well over 100 miles away in police…
/ February 20, 2019 at 10:14 AM
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A little medium and long-term thinking on mental health and its relationship with policing, if I may? We know from the last decade the problems the police service has tried to highlight and do something about. A large number of…
/ December 27, 2018 at 2:19 PM
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I took a fairly unplanned decision a few weeks ago, to change the ‘theme’ of this blog on WordPress, just to shake things up after a few years of this looking the same. I haven’t done anything particularly radical, but…
/ December 15, 2018 at 10:12 AM
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I’m off to Manchester on Monday. The Care Quality Commission are pulling together an event to look at the widely ignored provisions contained within section 140 of the Mental Health Act 1983. Actually, it’s not so much ignored, as not…
/ October 9, 2018 at 1:45 PM
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/ October 8, 2018 at 7:09 PM
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For some while, it has been suggested that the police service need to define what they mean by an incident being ‘mental health related’. You know those claims you’ve heard may times about how X percent of police demand or…
/ September 22, 2018 at 8:25 AM
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I haven’t blogged for almost two months! Various reasons – busy, on holiday, bored of saying the same thing over and over again … there are a few in the pipeline but I decided to put them all to one…
/ June 28, 2018 at 8:18 AM
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We are hearing stories on social media at the moment, of patients who claim they were told to ‘call the police’ when they have contacted their community or crisis team for support as they recognise they are becoming unwell or…
/ June 17, 2018 at 3:31 PM
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Look back to when I joined the police are you’ll see that crime levels, measured either by police recorded crime or by the British Crime Survey, were much higher – but if you look at statistics on use of s136…
/ April 6, 2018 at 8:59 PM
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It was being asked again last night, in the AMHP social media world as to whether Britain had run out of inpatient psychiatric beds. Obviously a difficult night to go out AMHPing, at least in some parts of the country.…
/ March 1, 2018 at 3:44 PM
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/ January 27, 2018 at 3:22 PM
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You’ll remember I’ve been banging on for a number of years now about the problem of people being in police custody for many hours or even for many days, waiting for Mental Health Act assessment, or more usually waiting for…
/ January 4, 2018 at 7:49 PM
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You guys seemed to use the BLOG a lot last year, way more than any other single year since I started in 2011 and that was really encouraging on one level. However, I couldn’t help but notice the vast majority…
/ December 14, 2017 at 8:19 PM
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Norman Lamb MP wrote to his local police force recently, asking about those kinds of cases I’ve been banging on for years now: people being held in custody for hours and hours, if not days and days, following their arrest…
/ December 1, 2016 at 10:47 AM
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