Why are they doing this?

NEW BLOG - "Street Corner Social Workers" Response to an article in the Sunday Times by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley. mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/str…

Gavin Hales Social work klaxon, though! - the argument never works, even to the extent can be argued but he doesn't help himself here by failing to give a single example of a social work task.

We are becoming increasingly frustrated with these ridiculously overreaching drone flight restrictions. Why are responsible drone operators being grounded 2.5km away just because someone *might* fly over a concert? This isn’t safety — it’s lazy management. Greater Manchester Police Higher Blackley & Charlestown Police (GMP)

My summary of the responses to the "social workers" analogy yesterday - No-one has yet provided an example of social work being done by the police without misunderstanding legal obligations involved - or without calling everything social work. End of discussion for me.

Michael Brown 🌍 I have huge respect for you.....as always far more complicated than this blog and tweets allow.

His involvement signals that HMG wants independent, practical legal advice rather than simply an internal NHS view. myemail.constantcontact.com/Larking-about.…

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Today I have mostly been threatened with violence & a fairly gruesome death✔️ Tomorrow I suspect I will be getting a S.135(1) Warrant & continuing the conversation✔️ It’s some job this #AMHPingLark sometimes/often✔️ *I often find myself> #AMHPlife #AMHPbag #AMHPlunch

“You know, the world of psychiatry is the realm of the unexpected. When you enter, all your certainties are shattered. The madmen reset all your counters to zero. They push you to revise all your diagrams.” Nicholas Philibert - Director. theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/…

I quite like the idea ✔️ Got some questions✔️ R these places a Place of Safety? *& they can be as defined by the #MHA✔️ What sort of staff u got? The door is open - both ways? U got a #AMHP on speed dial? Peeps in crisis & ambos & cops & families can just rock up? >

A health care profession or service that tolerates and elevates pseudoscience will be at odds with the safety of its patients

NEW PFD NOTICE - This one is a chuffing mess: HM Coroner for Nottinghamshire taking the relatively unusual step of issuing a PFD notice before evidence is complete, such is her concern about the state of s135/136 policies for police and ambulance. judiciary.uk/prevention-of-…

Here's today's press release from the IOPC welcoming Right Care, Right Person - ▶️ tiny.cc/nvjq001 Here's their annual report on police contact deaths which fails to mention RCRP at all. ▶️ tiny.cc/lvjq001 17 inquests, 6 pending and 15 PFD notices - so far.

Link to Trauma Dispatch post: michaelscheeringa.com/trauma-dispatc…

NEW BLOG - “Hitting the PFD Target”. Some PFD notices raise issues for one more than one agency but are not sent to all of them. mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/hit…

I love her even more❤️ Reposted from neun.magazine on IG At 30, Caitlin O’Ryan stands on the precipice of greatness, transforming shame into solidarity and wounds into words that heal millions. neunmagazine.com/2025/08/07/cai…

Dry proud of this amazing woman and poet! neunmagazine.com/2025/08/07/cai…

This exciting publication is coming soon, raising the profile of advanced practice in mental health settings 📚 for all those with an interest in advanced practice 👇 now available for preorder Chelsea Bertie

We’ve had: >'record NHS funding’ that barely kept pace with inflation; >’40 new hospitals’ that turned out to be refurbishments and new wings; >‘5,000 more GPs’, when numbers actually fell. >Now we have the graduate guarantee…. myemail.constantcontact.com/He-doesn-t.htm…