I'm mostly struggling with the size of their reduction compared to other years -

27% is considerably larger than either before or after the tech change and nothing I can remember seeing in years of looking at these figures.

Alas no, for that would have been a career to marvel at!

Professor Lionel Penrose - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_...

There are literally dozens of conditions (or groups of conditions) where charities, campaigners and others call for this, so it's a genuine question I'm asking:

How do you ensure fairness and indeed what is fairness, if you accept you cannot do this for everyone?

OLD POST - "Screening Tools"

This topic came up earlier in the year, specifically about screening children for ADHD so I wrote a post about it and not the first I'd done on the issue of condition-specific screening (or training).

mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/s...

Funnily enough, though when I was having petrol bombs thrown at me in 2011, I thought it was a pretty sensible idea to wear a fire resistant face mask.

Bloody 'elf n safey, eh?! ...but you're probably right: ZERO excuse, really. I should have just manned up ... or something.

I'm obliged for the nod.

The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:

Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.

Officers are conveying people more often than paramedics and a lot of that is just ambulance capacity; along with officers simply not requesting assistance.

Some simple things need doing here to fix problems, but some of this is intractable stuff for the Government.

4/4

Most alarming of all, is the sheer proportion of people detained under s136 being removed to Emergency Departments as a Place of Safety.

It's almost 48% (bearing in mind 7% of destinations weren't recorded at all) - so likely more than half of all 136.

@RCEMPolicyVP

3/

Firstly, RCRP won't explain what's going on - that was last year's explanation by @policechiefs and it doesn't work this year, either.

Some forces - inc Humberside where it all began - have had a significant rise, from 626 last year, to 772 this year.

West Midlands also up.

2/

Maybe it does - I just don't see what we get out of guessing because not all such incidents do have that backdrop.

Whatever happened prior will come out in due course and there are various legitimate reasons why speculating isn't helpful to anyone.

I'm well encouraged to do so - and I'm obliged.

It's starting to feel important to do this, given the refusal by the police to even talk about some of this!