22 August 201317 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Police forces trial ‘street triage’ mental health scheme

originally by: BBC News
published: 20 August 2013

Five more police forces are to pilot a scheme whereby mental health nurses accompany officers on call-outs, the government has announced. Nurses will join patrols, assist on emergency calls and in control rooms as part of the street triage scheme.

Trials have already been established in Leicestershire and Cleveland.

The new pilots will involve the British Transport Police and the Metropolitan, Thames Valley, West Midlands and West Yorkshire forces. The extension was announced by care and support minister Norman Lamb.

26 July 201317 December 2022 4WardEverUK

INQUEST welcomes long-awaited implementation of Coroners and Justice Act 2009

originally by: INQUEST
published: 25 July 2013

Many of the provisions of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 are finally being implemented on Thursday 25 July.

These will form the revised Coroners’ Rules and Regulations and are a significant step towards standardising the coronial system and gearing it more towards the needs of families.

INQUEST has been campaigning long and hard for root and branch reform of the coronial system, and was pleased to welcome the appointment of the Chief Coroner last September as the first step along this road.

23 October 201217 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Give the police tasers, don’t be shocked by the result

by: David Mitchell | Comment is free
published: 21 October 2012

The police have been going through a rough patch recently. First they were implicated in the phone-hacking scandal – though they managed to escape most of the blame when we collectively came to the surprising conclusion that it was more serious for tabloid journalists to neglect the public interest than officers of the crown.

But while they deflected a lot of that responsibility, their attempts to deflect it over Hillsborough have been catastrophically counterproductive. And as senior officers have been caught dining with Murdochs or maligning the dead, officers on the ground have been getting shot and called plebs. Or not called plebs, depending on who you believe.