Michael Brown 🌍

@MentalHealthCop

Bromsgrove, UK 🇬🇧

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Michael Brown 🌍@MentalHealthCop · Jul 23

NEW BLOG - "Peter Ramsden" Covers a new somewhat imprecise PFD notice about powers of entry to premises for the emergency services. mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/pet…

MentalHealthCop's tweet card. A new Preventing Future Deaths report was published this week after the inquest in Hull after the death of Mr Peter Ramsden. It raises “Right Care, Right Person” again, this time with p…

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Michael Brown 🌍@MentalHealthCop · 9 h

Police inspector guilty of misconduct over initial risk decisions for a MHA patient who absconded from hospital — birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…

MentalHealthCop's tweet card. Inspector Collin Baker from West Midlands Police has been found guilty of misconduct in relation to decision-making failures which meant Matthew Caseby was not found before being killed by a train...

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Michael Brown 🌍@MentalHealthCop · Jul 23

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-…

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Michael Brown 🌍@MentalHealthCop · Jul 23

Another aspect of the PFD for Kaine Fletcher - "Kaine was assessed by the community psychiatric nurse not to require a Mental Health Act Assessment, and so the police did not exercise their s136 powers." Section 136 MHA is NOT about whether someone needs a MHA assessment.

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Michael Brown 🌍@MentalHealthCop · Jul 21

Kaine Fletcher Inquest - Officers unaware of "policy" to call an ambulance after using s136 Mental Health Act. It's not policy: it's a requirement of statutory guidance and in national policing guidance it's the *FIRST* thing you do after using s136. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

MentalHealthCop's tweet card. Kaine Fletcher was restrained by police officers after being detained under the Mental Health Act.

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Michael Brown 🌍@MentalHealthCop · Jul 19

And another one ... judiciary.uk/prevention-of-…

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Michael Brown 🌍@MentalHealthCop · Jul 19

‘He begged not to die’: partner of man who died after being restrained by police joins calls to change mental health response - Plenty of discussion ongoing in Australia after a number of police contact deaths. theguardian.com/australia-news…

MentalHealthCop's tweet card. Taite Collins filmed his partner Collin Burling being restrained by officers at their public housing block in Sydney’s Waterloo

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Michael Brown 🌍@MentalHealthCop · Jul 19

Paramedics - Do you want explicit powers to be able to force entry to buildings? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

MentalHealthCop's tweet card. A coroner has written to the Home Office following the death of Peter Ramsden, from Hull.

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Michael Brown 🌍@MentalHealthCop · Jul 19

Sixteenth inquest I’m aware of - six more pending.

MMichael Brown 🌍@MentalHealthCop · Jul 18

Another new Preventing Future Death report, citing "Right Care, Right Person". The sad death of Mr Peter Ramsden in Hull earlier this year after he had not been seen for two months saw confusion about who entry to his home to check. judiciary.uk/prevention-of-…

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