Reported Hate-Crime/Racist Crimes
Dear Avon and Somerset Constabulary,
I’m writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act to request statistics on the number of hate crimes reported to your Constabulary. I’m building a study which details the changes in hate-crime behaviour in the last 10 years across the UK.
I want to know these three things:
1. The total number of reported hate-crimes in your Constabulary each year from January 1st 2009 to November 31st 2019.
2. From those cases above, how many resulted in a conviction?
3. Out of these hate-crimes, do you have statistics on how many were incidents of racism? If so, can this figure be included for each month?
I understand this may be quite the task to put these figures together, I’m willing to accept a small but reasonable delay in getting the figures back.
Thank you for your time in reading, responding and hopefully delivering my request.
Yours faithfully,
Scott Robinson
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Legal Services Directorate
Force Headquarters, PO Box 37, Valley Road,
Portishead, Bristol, BS20 8QJ
Email [email address]
Scott Robinson Our 1599/19
Reference
[FOI #629901 email] Date 22
January
2020
Dear Mr Robinson
I write in connection with your request for information dated 29^th
December 2019 under the Freedom of Information Act.
Specifically you asked:
1. The total number of reported hate-crimes in your Constabulary each year
from January 1st 2009 to November 31st 2019.
2. From those cases above, how many resulted in a conviction?
3. Out of these hate-crimes, do you have statistics on how many were
incidents of racism? If so, can this figure be included for each month?
Our response:
Please find the information attached.
The information is only available from August 2015 onwards.
Yours sincerely
Rebecca Pritchard
Freedom of Information Officer
Legal Services Directorate | Avon and Somerset Police
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