Glen Blackwell

Glen has over 34 years policing experience with Western Australia Police Force, predominately frontline, with the past 7yrs working in rollout of WAPFs’ Mental Health Co-Response and becoming WAPF’s first and only full-time MHCR Trainer developing and deliver training for WAPF. His team was awarded the 2018 WA Police Excellence Award and 2018 Mental Health Commissioner’s Award. He also worked for six months as Team Leader of W.A Health’s Mental Health Emergency Response Line(MHERL) being engaged July 2023 to assist in implementation of recommendations of the NEXUS independent systems review.

Glen’s Churchill Trust Fellowship supported travel to Canada, USA, and the United Kingdom being able to embed with several Behavioural Health Crisis programs. This allowed him to take part in diversionary practices, training programs, non-law enforcement responses, reactive crisis Co-Response and proactive High Utiliser teams.

Glen policing Behavioural Health Crisis learning was the focus of his academic studies and writing in completion of a Master of Leadership with the University of Notre Dame Australia.

Glen recently presented his Fellowship Report in Detroit, USA at the Crisis Intervention Team International conference and recently ANZPAA #PC23 policing conference in Melbourne. He has been published internationally by Policing Insight and Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association websites and is scheduled to present a webinar to the International Co-Responder Alliance.

Glen's Churchill journey has saw him attend Australian Parliament House as part of the 2024 Winston Churchill Trust Australia and University of Queensland joint publication "Policy Futures: A Reform Agenda" launch which included his report "Simplifying Access to Behavioural Health Crisis and Suicide Support".