Colour on a clear, cold winter day, is actually a genuine relief from the endless grey cloud and rain of normal winter!

Lovely photo.

I regret to acknowledge that as I'm well in to my third-decade of working on all this business that it's often as bad as it is because far too few actually care what happens to other people as long as they're banged up somewhere.

Maybe that as good as it gets and this is who we are?

This all strikes at the heart of my research - hence looking at it.

Whenever there is a controversial death, families quite naturally want to make sure lessons are learned and that is precisely what senior people promise after adverse inquests.

Can we claim it happens?!

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And of course, there is limited evidence forces made substantial changes to their joint procedures as part of introducing radical change like Right Care, Right Person (Findley, 2023) so I admit to wondering how many of those protocols are up-to-date with agreements?

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In fairness to them, other forces like West Midlands who went gone through very difficult inquests (Abbott, 2019, Briggs, 2021) where the absence or quality of jointly agreed protocols was ripped apart, simply didn't do anything about it and there was no obvious consequence.

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I wonder if forces like Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire realise how problematic their joint agreements could be in the event of a death after police contact?

Or are they just playing the odds that it's unlikely to go awry for them, because it doesn't happen very often?

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I'm in the club who thnks it always does, but I will accept the lighting is giving it an extra 'something' this morning!

I hope you're well.