This is an opportunity to comment upon a draft strategy for policing and mental health, which is being put together by Chief Constable Mark Collins, the National Police Chiefs Council lead on mental health.

Please feel free to distribute this public document around as you see fit, including on social media or within any organisation to which you are connected if they may have an interest.

In addition to circulating this formally to partners and encouraging even further circulation by them, we are putting this out on social media as the quickest way of securing broader public feedback and in order to distribute it as widely as possible to frontline professionals in policing and other public sector agencies who might not see it through official channels.

A few explanations of the document which is linked below –

It is just a plain text format word document – the final edition will be a colour document that looks much more professional than this. Feedback is requested on the actual content.

Consultation within the police service brings us to this penultimate draft – we are not aiming to highlighted every issue that could be mentioned; but to focus on some key issues whilst laying down some important principles and objectives.

The purpose here is look longer term and to shape the role of the police service in our wider system of public service – did we get this right?

For various reasons, I’m afraid the turnaround for any feedback is regrettably tight, should you wish to offer your view. If someone would like the document in a different format, please contact me on the email below.

DEADLINE – Wednesday 25th April 2018.

You can either leave a comment below, as I will take them all in to account, or leave feedback more formally via my College of Policing email address –

michael.brown2@college.pnn.police.uk

Please click here – Draft National Strategy on Policing and Mental Health.

Winner of the President’s Medal,

the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Winner of the Mind Digital Media Award

All views expressed are my own – they do not represent the views of any organisation.

(c) Michael Brown, 2019

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