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policing, mental health and criminal justice —
I am a criminology lecturer and researcher:
My PhD is studying how the RCRP programme remediates lessons learned after mental health police contact deaths by examining HM Coroners’ Preventing Future Death reports.
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It’s been used over three million times around the world and led to a job for me working full-time on the issues I write about – a chance to influence the laws, policies and policing across the United Kingdom and the chance to work abroad, representing the UK to other countries — how exciting is that?!
I now spend my time as a criminology lecturer, expert witness / trainer and researcher, attempting to expand the evidence base on policing, mental health and criminal justice.
Best of luck to those of you now trying to navigate the interface of policing, mental health and criminal justice, from various perspectives. It could hardly be more complex and impenetrable and the current tendency is to massively over-simplify things.
Professor Jill Peay observed work done at the interface of mental health and criminal justice is as complex as any you’ll find —
And the police can’t fix this for us.
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Michael./

I try to keep this blog up to date but inevitably, over time, amendments to the law as well as court rulings and other findings from inquests and complaints processes mean it is difficult to ensure all the articles and pages remain absolutely accurate and current. In particular, hyperlinks used in some posts can fail over time as other organisations change their websites.
Please ensure you check your legal issues — take appropriate advice where necessary. This blog was never official anything and I’m not a lawyer or a doctor – it’s just my own stuff based on some working knowledge and I’ve always felt a little like I’m making it up as I go.
I’ve worked hard to do that seriously and responsibly, but I’m neither legally nor clinically qualified.
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I am not a police officer.