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Michael Brown / June 18, 2019 at 11:44 AM 221 views

You may remember from late last year, I’ve made a large noise about the inquest in to the death of David Stacey in Leicester. David died in late 2017 and the inquest just before Christmas last year, concluded that his…

National Crime Recording Standard

Michael Brown / May 17, 2019 at 8:31 AM 186 views

I made passing comment in the last post I wrote about crime recording rules and I’m assuming you’ve nothing better to do on a Sunday than read about statistical counting procedures put together for the purposes of not-really-understanding-crime at all…

Liv

Michael Brown / May 8, 2019 at 3:53 PM 3,592 views

I am nothing short of absolutely gutted and profoundly upset to learn an hour ago, that Liv Pontin died earlier today. @Liv1204, as she was known on Twitter, was a kind and gentle young woman of considerable insight and passion,…

Three Years Until 2022

Michael Brown / February 20, 2019 at 10:14 AM 303 views

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…

A Work in Progress

Michael Brown / December 27, 2018 at 2:19 PM 466 views

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…

Fifty Nine Years

Michael Brown / December 15, 2018 at 10:12 AM 529 views

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…

‘Mental Health Related’

Michael Brown / October 8, 2018 at 7:09 PM 577 views

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…

ABD and the Ambulance Service

Michael Brown / September 22, 2018 at 8:25 AM 649 views

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…

CarePlan: Call the Police!

Michael Brown / June 28, 2018 at 8:18 AM 797 views

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…

Let’s Do The Maths

Michael Brown / June 17, 2018 at 3:31 PM 686 views

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…

Beds and Stuff

Michael Brown / April 6, 2018 at 8:59 PM 824 views

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.…

Keep Your Eye on the Ball

Michael Brown / January 27, 2018 at 3:22 PM 1,037 views

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…

Much Less Blogging

Michael Brown / January 4, 2018 at 7:49 PM 1,075 views

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…

The Same But Different

Michael Brown / December 14, 2017 at 8:19 PM 972 views

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…