Connections. Following what I wrote above on the 'TheMHS Summer Forum, with the focus on "Tackling Aggression – understand, respond and prevent", and to demonstrate what was on my mind at the time, here are few articles in the news today and yesterday.

Coroner retires to consider finding in police teen shooting inquest
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2011/s3161912.htm

Coroner urged to consider suicide finding in police shooting
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/compose-message-article.asp?article=11686

[indirectly related from a community learning point of view]

Calls for schools to address suicide prevention
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2011/s3160812.htm

And then there is this....

Officer thought taser didn't hurt man
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/11/3161963.htm?section=justin

Inquest hears police may have tasered dead man 28 times
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/inquest-hears-police-may-have-tasered-dead-man-28-times/story-e6frg6nf-1226019650203

We don't take Crime Prevention seriously enough. We dont take a whole persons circumstance seriously enough. Be it the actions of the police or those working in the system with issues in Mental Health, there needs to be a bridge, and a little more "communitication" when it comes to linking how a person is coping, understanding the adversities, from a consumer perspective.

A link I cant find that I heard on the radio this this week is one relating to people who say nothing when interviewed by the police.... another issue I challenge. A person ought to have the right to remain silent, under all circumstances until they get Liaison, Allied, Advocate or legal support. Communication is not only key in crime prevention protocol and process, it is key to process.

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