Misper

A misper is a missing person: Mr Bill learned about the procedure to follow when someone reports a loved one who did not come home or has gone missing after an argument. Mr Bill says it seemed like common sense to him - if it is a child the investigation gets underway immediately, if it is a parent phoning about a teenager who went storming out after an argument then enquiries would start differently. If the individual is vulnerable then obviously common sense tells you that you need to make sure they are safe and also that the public are safe too. It seems some of this might be in preparation for next week; a chance for Mr Bill to find out more about mental health problems as he spends a week at a mental health centre.

Mr Bill learned a little about searches – he was going to learn how to search a room but Sergeant Shiny Shoes is the expert and has been called in to an important case locally which everyone wants to solve as quickly and effectively as possible. The Serg did give them an explanation of what he is doing and how he goes about the search in this case– which Mr Bill said was very interesting.

He learned about some of the Police powers to be used with mentally ill people – they cannot often be arrested but they can be taken to a place of safety – safety for them and the public too one hopes. It just depends whether there is a place in a psychiatric unit which sometimes there isn’t :-(