Superintendent Dion Brown has co-written a guide designed to help autistic people if they are stopped by a police officer.
In this blog, written during World Autism Month, Superintendent Brown explains how his son inspires his work, and why he hopes both autistic people and police officers will read the guide.
“My 14-year-old son, Hayden, is absolutely obsessed with rollercoasters. The faster and scarier a rollercoaster is, the more Hayden enjoys it.
“He likes riding rollercoasters, talking about rollercoasters and planning which rollercoaster he will take me or his mum on next.
“Hayden is autistic and like many autistic people, he becomes fixated on some activities.
“However activities other people find ‘easy’, Hayden can find incredibly stressful and confusing.
