Hotel Rooms and s136

I’ve written about the issue of the Mental Health Act and hotel rooms before – focussing on the stated case of ‘Rosso’. I’m not hyperlinking to the old blog post precisely because it is now redundant and out of date – it was written a few years ago, well before the 2017 changes to the […]

Halfway from Elsewhere

This post arises from a specific event, but it’s far from unique. I want to use it as an example of something so straight-forward and obvious, yet complex and intractable and which raises a number of questions I suspect are often overlooked or set aside. It relates to the conveyance of patients who have absconded […]

Painting the Forth Bridge

Mental health stuff in policing is not my job any more – not really. I’m still asked to offer advice or opinion from time to time and most of the other inspectors on my team have used the phone-a-friend service which is inherently on offer when I’m on duty! I’ve reviewed some incidents and policies […]