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Dear Essex Police,

Under the Freedom of Information Act, please could you provide your hate crime statistics for the past five years, broken down by the following categories:

• Race or ethnicity
• Religion or beliefs
• Sexual orientation
• Disability
• Transgender identity

Yours faithfully,
Maura Maxwell

Info Rights Freedom Essex, Essex Police

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Kind regards

 

 

FOI Team | Information Management Department | Information Rights Section
| Essex Police

Telephone: 101 | Email: [5][Essex Police request email]

Address: Information Management Department, Information Rights Section,
Essex Police HQ, PO Box 2, Chelmsford CM2 6DA  (for Sat Nav directions,
use CM2 6DN for HQ)

 

Information Management aspires to be: Helpful, Inclusive & Professional

 

Essex Police have developed a publication strategy, our aim is to reduce
the demand within the FOI Department and to provide knowledge to the
public to include previous and combined FOI requests together with
relevant links and information.

 

Please visit this area of our website before submitting FOI requests as
information may already be available.

 

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under Section 50 of the Act to complain directly to the Information
Commissioner. Before considering your complaint, the Information
Commissioner would normally expect you to have exhausted the complaints
procedures provided by Essex Police.

 

The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information
Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9
5AF or via [9]https://ico.org.uk/

 

 

 

 

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Info Rights Freedom Essex, Essex Police

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Thank you for your enquiry which has been logged under the above
reference.

 

Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) places two duties
on public authorities.  Unless exemptions apply, the first duty at Section
1(1)(a) is to confirm or deny whether the information specified in a
request is held.  The second duty at Section 1(1)(b) is to disclose
information that has been confirmed as being held.  Where exemptions are
relied upon Section 17 of FOIA requires that we provide the applicant with
a notice which: a) states that fact b) specifies the exemption(s) in
question and c) states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the
exemption applies.

 

In respect of your enquiry:

 

Under the Freedom of Information Act, please could you provide your hate
crime statistics for the past five years, broken down by the following
categories:

• Race or ethnicity

• Religion or beliefs

• Sexual orientation

• Disability

• Transgender identity

 

Having completed enquiries within Essex Police and in respect of Section
1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold some data relating to your request, Essex
Police can confirm in respect of Section 1(1)(b) the below data

Notes:

Some incidents were not designated to one specific hate incident type
group, instead they involved multiple hate motivating factors. Such
incidents have been allocated to the category: ‘Multiple hate incident
types.’

The results include both crime and non crime hate incidents

Dates Period: 1^st January 2016 to 31^st December 2020

 

Please find below the crime statistics for the last 5 years in the below
table:

 

Hate Incidents - January 2016 to December 2020
Number of hate
Year Hate Incident Category incidents Yearly hate incidents
Multiple hate Incident types 44
Hate Incident - Age 1
Hate Incident - Disability 238
Hate Incident - Homophobic 222
Hate Incident - Racial 1706
Hate Incident - Religious 33
Hate Incident - Religious -
Buddhist 1
Hate Incident - Religious -
Christian 4
Hate Incident - Religious -
2016 Hindu 1 2359
Hate Incident - Religious -
Jewish 28
Hate Incident - Religious -
Muslim 27
Hate Incident - Religious - No
religion 2
Hate Incident - Religious -
Other 2
Hate Incident - Religious - Sikh 1
Hate Incident - Religious -
Unknown 6
Hate Incident - Transgender 43
Multiple hate Incident types 47
Hate Incident - Age 2
Hate Incident - Disability 317
Hate Incident - Homophobic 282
Hate Incident - Racial 1722
Hate Incident - Religious 7
Hate Incident - Religious -
Christian 11
Hate Incident - Religious -
Hindu 1
2017 Hate Incident - Religious - 2639
Jewish 42
Hate Incident - Religious -
Muslim 101
Hate Incident - Religious - No
religion 8
Hate Incident - Religious -
Other 1
Hate Incident - Religious - Sikh 1
Hate Incident - Religious -
Unknown 3
Hate Incident - Transgender 94
Multiple hate Incident types 74
Hate Incident - Age 3
Hate Incident - Disability 381
Hate Incident - Homophobic 342
Hate Incident - Racial 1992
Hate Incident - Religious -
Christian 10
Hate Incident - Religious -
Hindu 1
Hate Incident - Religious -
2018 Jewish 70 3071
Hate Incident - Religious -
Muslim 79
Hate Incident - Religious - No
religion 1
Hate Incident - Religious -
Other 8
Hate Incident - Religious - Sikh 2
Hate Incident - Religious -
Unknown 13
Hate Incident - Transgender 95
Multiple hate Incident types 87
Hate Incident - Age 1
Hate Incident - Alternative
Sub-culture 3
Hate Incident - Disability 439
Hate Incident - Homophobic 448
Hate Incident - Racial 2166
Hate Incident - Religious -
Christian 4
Hate Incident - Religious -
2019 Jewish 73 3435
Hate Incident - Religious -
Muslim 79
Hate Incident - Religious - No
religion 1
Hate Incident - Religious -
Other 19
Hate Incident - Religious - Sikh 3
Hate Incident - Religious -
Unknown 10
Hate Incident - Transgender 102
Multiple hate Incident types 92
Hate Incident - Age 7
Hate Incident - Alternative
Sub-culture 12
Hate Incident - Disability 520
Hate Incident - Homophobic 498
Hate Incident - Racial 2602
Hate Incident - Religious -
Christian 7
Hate Incident - Religious -
2020 Hindu 3 3970
Hate Incident - Religious -
Jewish 57
Hate Incident - Religious -
Muslim 60
Hate Incident - Religious -
Other 9
Hate Incident - Religious - Sikh 1
Hate Incident - Religious -
Unknown 10
Hate Incident - Transgender 92
Total 15,474

 

Every effort is made to ensure that figures provided are accurate and
complete, however Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the
management of individual cases and not primarily for the production of
statistical information. Please note although data can be extracted from a
number of sources via database queries the results are subject to
inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system and could also
be inaccurate as a result of free text entry fields. Care should be taken
to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are
taken into account when interpreting data.

 

Please note that further information regarding Hate Crime can be found
through our publication scheme
[1]https://www.essex.police.uk/foi-ai/af/ac...

The above data will be included within our current publications.

 

Thank you for your interest in Essex Police

 

Kind regards,

 

 

FOI Team | Information Management Department | Information Rights Section
| Essex Police

Email: [2][Essex Police request email]

Address: Information Management Department, Information Rights Section,
Essex Police HQ, PO Box 2, Chelmsford CM2 6DA  (for Sat Nav directions,
use CM2 6DN for HQ)

Information Management aspires to be: Helpful, Inclusive & Professional

Essex Police have developed a publication strategy, our aim is to reduce
the demand within the FOI department and to provide knowledge to the
public to include previous and combined FOI requests together with
relevant links and information.

Please visit this area of our website before submitting FOI requests as
information may already be available.

[3]https://www.essex.police.uk/foi-ai/af/ac...

 

 

 

Please note, if you require further information or wish to resubmit a
request please refer to the information found on the Commissioner’s
website regarding submission of effective requests: 
[4]https://www.ico.org.uk/for_the_public/of...

 

Your right to complain

If you feel your request has not been properly handled, or you are
otherwise dissatisfied with the outcome of your request you have the right
to complain.

 

Complaints should be submitted within 20 working days from the date of
this response and should be addressed to the Senior Information Officer at
the above address or by email to:  [5][Essex Police request email]

 

We will conduct a review to investigate your complaint and endeavour to
reply within 20 working days.

 

Please explain which aspect of the reply you are not satisfied with, and
if your complaint concerns the decision to apply an exemption it would
assist the review if you would outline why you believe the exemption does
not apply.      

 

If you are still dissatisfied following our review, you have the right
under Section 50 of the Act to complain directly to the Information
Commissioner.  Before considering your complaint, the Information
Commissioner would normally expect you to have exhausted the complaints
procedures provided by Essex Police.

 

The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:  Information
Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9
5AF or via [6]https://ico.org.uk/.

 

 

 

 

From: Info Rights Freedom Essex <[Essex Police request email]>
Sent: 16 December 2020 13:10
To: Maura Maxwell <[FOI #713235 email]>
Subject: FOI 15131- Hate crime statistics

 

Thank you for your enquiry which has been logged under the above
reference.

Please note that Essex Police are actively publishing information within
our publication scheme webpage, information supplied as part of this
request could be used within the scheme. Please click on the following
link to search details of existing publications
[7]https://www.essex.police.uk/foi-ai/af/ac....

Under the Freedom of Information Act we are required to reply within 20
working days. The Act does not specify a limit to the number of
information requests a public authority may receive or the number of
requests or questions an applicant may submit. However, there are
exemptions in the Act that can apply and these include where the cost of
complying with the request would extend beyond the reasonable cost limit,
(currently 18 hours or £450), or if the request is otherwise manifestly
unreasonable in its scope or nature.

Requests that ask a great many questions, or a number of detailed requests
submitted at the same time, may make it necessary for Essex Police to
refuse the requests wholly or in part. The exemption at Section 14 may be
engaged if the burden on the authority is increased through multiple
requests on differing subjects.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has responsibility for
providing oversight and guidance for the legislation and they have
produced advice for applicants on submitting effective requests. Further
information can be found on the Commissioner’s website at
[8]www.ico.gov.uk, specific information relating to submitting a request
can be found at:
[9]https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/offici...

While we process your request, please take the time to consider the ICO’s
advice and whether you feel it may be beneficial to amend or refine your
request. Our team is happy to discuss your request with you and will be
able to provide advice as to what kind of information will be available
from Essex Police.

Although every effort will be made to ensure a response is provided within
statutory deadlines, due to current circumstances, delays may be
unavoidable. We apologise for any inconvenience and will endeavour to
process your request as quickly as is practicable.

Please ensure all future enquiries are sent to the
[10][Essex Police request email] mailbox.

Kind regards

FOI Team | Information Management Department | Information Rights Section
| Essex Police

Telephone: 101 | Email: [11][Essex Police request email]

Address: Information Management Department, Information Rights Section,
Essex Police HQ, PO Box 2, Chelmsford CM2 6DA (for Sat Nav directions, use
CM2 6DN for HQ)

Information Management aspires to be: Helpful, Inclusive & Professional

Essex Police have developed a publication strategy, our aim is to reduce
the demand within the FOI Department and to provide knowledge to the
public to include previous and combined FOI requests together with
relevant links and information.

Please visit this area of our website before submitting FOI requests as
information may already be available.

[12]https://www.essex.police.uk/foi-ai/af/ac...

Please note, if you require further information or wish to resubmit a
request please refer to the information found on the Commissioner’s
website regarding submission of effective requests:
[13]https://www.ico.org.uk/for_the_public/of...

Your right to complain

If you feel your request has not been properly handled, or you are
otherwise dissatisfied with the outcome of your request you have the right
to complain.

Complaints should be submitted within 20 working days from the date of
this response and should be addressed to the Senior Information Officer at
the above address or by email to: [14]info.rights.freedom@essex. police.uk

We will conduct a review to investigate your complaint and endeavour to
reply within 20 working days.

Please explain which aspect of the reply you are not satisfied with, and
if your complaint concerns the decision to apply an exemption it would
assist the review if you would outline why you believe the exemption does
not apply.

If you are still dissatisfied following our review, you have the right
under Section 50 of the Act to complain directly to the Information
Commissioner. Before considering your complaint, the Information
Commissioner would normally expect you to have exhausted the complaints
procedures provided by Essex Police.

The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information
Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9
5AF or via [15]https://ico.org.uk/

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