Your ref:

Our ref: FOI 20091/99973

27th November 2009

Dear Mr Walker,

I write to clarify the situation with regards to your Freedom of Information request that you made to West Yorkshire Police on 27/10/09. You requested the following information:

1) How many homophobic hate crimes have been committed in 2009 to date?

2) How many homophobic hate crimes have been reported for each year for the past five years in West Yorkshire?

3) How many homophobic hate crimes have been reported this year and for the past five years in the Huddersfield area?

4) How many people have been sentenced for homophobic hate crimes in West Yorkshire each year over the past three years?

CLARIFICATION -

I would like to know the number of homophobic hate 'incidents' and the number of homophobic hate 'crimes' as two separate statistics.

CLARIFICATION RECEIVED (16.11.09)***

Could you please give me information for 'hate incidents', including those deemed to be crimes

(basically, just hate incidents and crimes grouped together as one number.)

We would be grateful if you could inform us by your preferred method (contact details as above) if you still require a response to your request for information. If we do not hear from you within twenty working days from the date of this letter then we will assume that you no longer require the information that you have requested.

Please be assured that if you do still wish for us to proceed then we will be happy to do so.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Yours sincerely

Superintendent Tyron Joyce

Information Management