/ 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…
/ February 19, 2019 at 1:37 PM
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/ February 19, 2019 at 11:17 AM
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It’s been the fashion for a few years to suggest we need to reduce the amount of times the police service uses s136 MHA. No-one quite understands who made the unilateral decision that it was over-used and we know already…
/ February 12, 2019 at 10:05 AM
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Since the turn of the New Year, I seem to have been in a lot of meetings where I’m discussing policing, mental health and criminal justice with the police, OR I’m doing so as the only police officer in a room…
/ February 9, 2019 at 9:05 PM
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During the inquest last December after the death of David Stacey in Leicester in 2017, his family requested he be known in proceedings by his first name. The story behind David’s death is tragic and will be familiar to all…
/ February 6, 2019 at 5:05 PM
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As the years go on, I do find that the posts I write are becoming replicas of other posts I’ve previously written. Indeed, sometimes I write and then think, “I’ve covered this before” and then just stop and delete the…
/ January 31, 2019 at 11:30 AM
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On Tuesday of this week, the College of Policing hosted a small workshop on street triage. It was an invitation only event to start gathering ideas about how to tackle a particular piece of work we’ve been set by Her…
/ January 30, 2019 at 5:51 PM
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Social prescribing can only play a limited role in helping folks living with serious mental ill-health A news story on social prescribing boomed out of my radio on Monday morning – another jolly report about how this was the…
/ January 26, 2019 at 10:09 PM
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In December 2017, the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (PACA) amended the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA). The amended Act allows for the Secretary of State to make Regulations about Place of Safety provision, in particular the use of police…
/ January 25, 2019 at 4:42 PM
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We heard news last Thursday (24th January) a mental health patient had been moved from one hospital to another – transferred under s19 MHA, if you must know. It’s hardly headline stuff and yet it reached the BBC News website…
/ 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…
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