Thinking About Policing
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Policing's growing role at the intersection of mental health and public safety.
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My experience of ADHD in policing, from noisy offices and interrupted report writing to night shifts, unexplained changes and the support that helps.
Protecting vulnerable people after cuckooing: why closure orders and enforcement need continuing support, investigation and assessment.
Why we should rethink guidance on arresting at every domestic incident: using evidence about relationship risk to prevent serious harm.
The Sun’s arrest headline raises a fair question about police activity. Official figures show arrests rising across most forces. Explore what that tells us, and what it leaves unanswered.
A practical guide to police data literacy: how leaders can interrogate performance data, test professional instinct and avoid misleading conclusions.
Police wellbeing is not only an individual resilience issue. Organisational stressors, fatigue and poor supervision are associated with worse mental wellbeing and impaired performance. The strongest leadership response is to change working conditions as well as offer support.
