Click the blog titles as they are all hyperlinked – for some reason this new ‘theme’ doesn’t show this very clearly!

• GUIDANCE BY ROLE
• The Senior Officers’ Checklist
• The Duty Inspector 
• Controllers and Call Handlers
• Paramedics

• GUIDANCE FOR POLICY LEADS
• What Do All The Sections Mean?! …
• Place of Safety policy
• Assessments on Private Premises policy <<< coming soon
• AWOL policy <<< coming soon
• Conveyance Policy <<< coming soon
• Prosecution of Offenders policy <<< coming soon
• Mental Capacity Act policy <<< coming soon

• Accident and Emergency
• Mental Health in A&E
• RED FLAGS to A&E
• Section 136 within A&E
• Is A&E a place of safety?
• Can You Use Section 136 In A&E?

• Adebowale Commission
• Lord Adebowale’s Independent Commission
• The Adebowale Report
• My Reaction to Adebowale

• Alcohol
• Assessing Intoxicated Patients – part 1
• Assessing Intoxicated Patients – part 2
• Section 136 and Alcohol
• Exclusion criteria

• Autism
• Policing and Autism – part 1
• Policing and Autism – part 2
• Learning Disabilities and the Police

• AWOL Patients and s135(2) Mental Health Act 1983
• AWOL Patients – part 1
• AWOL Patients – part 2
• AWOL Patients – part 3
• Safe and Well Checks
• Section 17 Leave
• Section 5 – Holding Powers
• Warrants under s135(2) MHA
• Conditional Discharge and s42 MHA
• Magistrates and the Mental Health Act
• Rabone, Savage and s127 MHA
• Absconding & Escaping
• Guardianship
• Forcing Entry
• Colin HOLT

• Capacity
• Do they have ‘capacity’?
• The Police and The Mental Capacity Act
• The CURE Test
• Autonomy and Mental Capacity
• Autonomy, Risk and the Politics of Control
• Actually Using the Mental Capacity Act
• Upholding The Law
• Declining Medical Treatment

• Children
• Section 136 and Children
• Doin’ For The Kids

• Codes of Practice
• And organisational culture
• The Munjaz Case – on the House of Lords ruling in R (Munjaz) v Ashworth Hospital Authority.
• What would you do?

• Community Care
• Guardianship
• Care In The Community
• Community Treatment Orders

• Conveyance
• Conveyance of Patients
• Trying My Patients

• Criminal Justice System
• The Course of Justice
• Mens Rea
• Infanticide and the Criminalisation Contingency
• Theory Into Practice
• So What Happens Now?

• Excited Delirium
• General
• RED FLAGS to A&E - identifying potential medical emergency

• Information Sharing
• General

• International issues
• South Africa
• Crisis intervention training
• How do you hold mentally ill offenders accountable?

• Armed and Emergency Services’ Mental Health
• Armed Forces, Criminal Justice and Mental Health
• Who Is Protecting the Protectors?
• Police Mental Health

• Mental Health Act Assessments
• Over The Border
• The Nearest Relative
• Section 5 – Holding Powers

• Miscellaneous
• 999 What’s Your Emergency
• What We Need The NHS To Know
• Signals from Noise
• Who Is Protecting the Protectors?
• What do the police thinkg of AMHPs?
• Mental Health Units
• Cognitive Dissonance
• Folie à Deux – Madness In The Fast Lane
• Arresting People Is Easy
• Not So Big Society – guest post for another blog on general issues.
• Awards
• The ‘Policy as Law’ Fallacy
• School Homework
• Where does ‘Mental Health’ live?
• Should We Have To Do This?
• Police Officers as Psychiatric Nurses
• The Senior Officers’ Checklist
• England and Wales; Scotland and Northern Ireland
• Threatening self-harm
• The Yorkshire Ripper
• Police Ranks and Roles Explained
• Controllers and Call Handlers
• RAVE risks and litter collection
• Forcibly Medicating Patients
• The Duty Inspector 
• A Response to the Masked AMHP
• Chief Constable Simon Cole
• Victimology and Mental Health
• Assessing Intoxicated Patients – part 1
• Assessing Intoxicated Patients – part 2
• What Do All The Sections Mean?! …

• Models of Mental Illness
• What If Richard BENTALL Is Right?
• Biology, Psychology or Sociology

• Paramedics Series
• Introduction
• You Call Us
• We Call You
• Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act
• Assessments
• The Use of Force
• What Is An AMHP?
• Ambulance Drivers

• Partnerships
• Psychiatric Unit Liaison Officer
• “It’s good to talk” – roles & remits and joint working
• s136 and private premises
• RED FLAGS to A&E - identifying potential medical emergency
• Your place or mine?
• Setting you up to fail
• The Neighbourhood Policing Sergeant
• Is Mental Health Police Business? – part 1
• Is Mental Health Police Business? – part 2
• Risk Not Connected To Status

• Personal
• I remember when I joined …
• Firearms story
• Attempted murder of a police officer
• What would you do?
• Is it necessary?
• Norse Mythology
• Riot Gear and Barricades

• Police Custody
• The role of the custody sergeant
• The Custody Sergeants’ Seminar
• RED FLAGS to A&E - identifying potential medical emergency
• Fiddling at the Edges
• No Beds
• Appropriate Adult
• Mental Health Screening In Police Custody
• The Nearest Relative

• Policy
• Too Long and Too Complex
• One Vision
• The “Policy As Law” Fallacy

• Prosecution of offenders
• Insanity
• Illness and Insanity
• Diminished Responsibility
• Mad, Bad or Sad
• Information Sharing
• Infanticide and the Criminalisation Contingency
• Remand for Forensic Assessment
• Inpatient violence – part 1
• Inpatient violence – part 2
• Why I Hate The Term ‘Diversion’
• A Response to the Masked AMHP
• The Emperor’s New Clothes
• Notional s37 MHA
• Whose Decision Is It To Divert?
• Why are mentally ill patients treated like criminals?
• Do they have ‘capacity’?
• The Criminalisation Contingency
• MAPPA
• The Restricted Hospital Order
• Earlier Intervention
• Not In The Public Interest
• From Mental Health Act to Prison
• Psychiatric Unit Liaison Officer
• Diversion from Justice – part 1
• Diversion from Justice – part 2
• Fiddling at the Edges
• How do you hold mentally ill offenders accountable?

• Psychiatric Units
• The Criminalisation Contingency
• Inpatient violence – part 1
• Inpatient violence – part 2
• Notional s37 MHA
• Section 5 – Holding Powers
• The Restricted Hospital Order
• Not In The Public Interest
• Psychiatric Unit Liaison Officer
• AWOL Patients – part 1
• AWOL Patients – part 2
• AWOL Patients – part 3
• Warrants under s135(2) MHA
• Conditional Discharge and s42 MHA
• Rabone, Savage and s127 MHA
• Absconding & Escaping

• s135(1) Mental Health Act 1983
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Practical Guidance
• Information Sharing
• Mind the Gap – part 1
• Mind the Gap – part 2
• Magistrates and the Mental Health Act
• You Can’t Both Be Correct
• Your Home Is Your Castle

• s136 Mental Health Act 1983
• Part 1
• Practical Guidance
• Royal College of Psychiatry Standards
• Place of Safety Training
• MS v UK
• Section 136 and Alcohol
• Section 136 and private premises
• Section 136 within A&E
• Section 136 and Children
• Section 136 and CRB Checks
• Section 136 and the FME
• Can You Use Section 136 In A&E?
• It’s Cheaper to do it Properly
• Elephants In The Room
• In Immediate Need Of Care
• Information Sharing
• Arrest s136 or for an offence?
• Thinking Correctly Under Pressure
• RED FLAGS to A&E - identifying potential medical emergency
• Your place or mine?
• Setting you up to fail
• Whose responsibility is that?
• What would you do?
• Is A&E a place of safety?
• Exclusion criteria
• The Police and The Mental Capacity Act
• Should I stay or should I go?
• Appropriate Use Of Section 136
• “You’re under arrest for being ill.”

• Stigma & Criminalisation
• Criminalisation and the vulnerable
• Why are mentally ill patients treated like criminals?
• The Criminalisation Contingency
• I Predict A Riot
• Stigma in the Sand
• RED FLAGS to A&E - identifying potential medical emergency
• Fiddling at the Edges
• How do you hold mentally ill offenders accountable?
• Lee Dixon
• Is Mental Health Police Business? – part 1
• Is Mental Health Police Business? – part 2
• Should We Have To Do This?
• Joe Paraskeva

• Systems Thinking
• It’s Cheaper To Do It Properly
• Surviving In A System
• Failure Demand

• Suicide
• The Samaritans Media Guidelines on Suicide
• Suicide – part 1
• Suicide by Cop
• Suicide Prevention

• Use of Force
• Restraint
• Using Force on Vulnerable People - part 1
• Using Force on Vulnerable People – part 2
• Thank You For Messing Us About
• Sectioning the Elderly
• The Utility of Force
• Taser

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The Mental Health Cop blog won

- the Mind 2012 Digital Media Award, in memory and in honour of Mark Hanson.
The Awards celebrate the “best portrayals of and reporting on mental health in the media.”
- a World of Mentalists 2012 #TWIMAward for the best in mental health blogs.
It was described as “a unique mix of professional resource, help for people using services and polemic.”

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