Homophobic hate crimes reported to police

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Thank you for your enquiry which has been logged under the above
reference.
Under the Freedom of Information Act we are required to reply within 20
working days and we will formally respond within that timescale.

Steve Grayton
Assistant Freedom of Information Officer, Essex Police
Corporate Development Department
Tel: 0300 333 4444 Ext 54551
Fax: 01245 452256
email :[email address]
FOI requests to: [Essex Police request email]

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Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED

Thank you for your enquiry which has been logged under the above
reference. Having completed my enquiries I am able to respond as follows:

Could you please inform me of

     [1a] the total number of homophobic hate crimes reported to you
in the last year

     [b] the last three years

Essex Police has recorded the following numbers:
2004 - 2005 - 100 crimes
2005 - 2006 - 157 crimes
2006 - 2007 - 96 crimes
2007 - 2008 - 95

     [2a] the total number of those hate crimes that were reported to
the Crown Prosecution Service in the last year

     [b] the last three years.

In terms of Freedom of Information, I am afraid that the specific
information you were seeking access to is not held by Essex Police in what
is referred to as a readily accessible format.

For the purposes of section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
(FOIA) this response serves as a formal notification of refusal of your
request on the basis that Essex Police does not hold, for the purposes of
FOIA, the specific data in a readily accessible format. That is to say,
this data is not extractable from a central database or held in a
spreadsheet. To ascertain whether this information is held would entail a
manual search of Essex Police records; a process which would be likely to
exceed the appropriate limit (as mentioned at section 12 of the FOIA) in
terms of cost/time (£450 or the equivalent in time of 18 hours).

I hope the information we have been able to provide is of use.

Steve Grayton
Assistant Freedom of Information Officer, Essex Police
Corporate Development Department
Tel: 0300 333 4444 Ext 54551
Fax: 01245 452256
email :[email address]
FOI requests to: [1][Essex Police request email]
Essex Police provides you the right to request a re-examination of your
case under its review procedure. If you decide to request such a review
and having followed the Police's full process you are still dissatisfied,
then you have the right to direct your comments to the Information
Commissioner who will give it consideration.

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