Daily Rates of Islamaphobic Hate Crimes Jan 2015 - Nov 2017

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Dear South Yorkshire Police,

Could you please provide me with the number of Islamaphobic hate crimes reported between 1st January 2015 and 30th November 2017 broken down by the date they were reported.

Yours faithfully,

Fraser Innes

FOI, South Yorkshire Police

Dear Mr Innes

 

Re your request (reference number above):

 

Could you please provide me with the number of Islamaphobic hate crimes
reported between 1st January 2015 and 30th November 2017 broken down by
the date they were reported.

 

Please could you clarify the following point(s): -

 

South Yorkshire Police has received a number of similar requests to yours
in the past. All such requests and responses are published on the Force
Disclosure Log, which can be found on the South Yorkshire Police website
at: -

 

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You may find that research of the Log may be worthwhile prior to
submitting future requests as this may well result in the information
being available immediately rather than any delay resulting from the
process of responding to a request under the Act. In particular, we would
draw your attention to the following entries: -

[2]http://www.southyorkshire.police.uk/foi/...

 

It would be helpful if you could review the above entries and compare the
responses to your particular requirement for information. We appreciate
that people have different reasons for requesting information and those
differences often lead to slight but important variations in the wording
of requests. We are concerned to avoid misinterpreting these subtle
variations and issuing an unnecessary or erroneous refusal to release
information under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act
(Information available to the applicant by other means). We also
understand that information changes with the passage of time and previous
responses may not always cover the date or time parameters of your
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If our previous responses do not completely satisfy your requirements it
would be appreciated if you could refine your request in order to elicit
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where your requirement involves information from particular date
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frame, it would be helpful if you could refine your request so as to
prompt the release of information relating to the dates not already
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As a general point concerning the setting of date parameters: The use of
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extraction of information (unfortunately our computers simply do not have
the linguistic ability to interpret these phrases!). The use of terms such
as ‘financial year’ or ‘calendar year’ is more helpful, but the use of
exact dates between, or from which information is required is most likely
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opportunity.

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

Martha Robinson

Information Compliance Clerk

Information Compliance Unit

Professional Standards Department

Unit 20, Churchill Way

Sheffield 35A Business Park

Chapeltown

Sheffield

S35 2PY

 

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Dear FOI,

Thank you for your response but the freedom of information request you reference requests a different set of data, over a shorter period of time, to a less specific degree. I requested the number of islamophobic hate crimes commited each day between 1 January 2015 and 30 November 2017 inclusive.

Yours sincerely,

Fraser Innes

FOI, South Yorkshire Police

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Dear Mr Innes

 

Please find attached our response to your Freedom of Information request.

 

Best regards

 

Martha Robinson

Information Compliance Clerk

Information Compliance Unit

Professional Standards Department

Unit 20, Churchill Way

Sheffield 35A Business Park

Chapeltown

Sheffield

S35 2PY

 

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