Dorset Police - East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) Hate Crimes/Incidents Data

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ESEA Hate FOI Project

Dear Dorset Police,

We seek the following information on racist hate crimes and/or hate incidents towards the following ethnic groups:

- Chinese

- East Asian

- South East Asian

- Asian

- "Oriental"

- Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, and South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Laos, Indonesia, Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia and Timor-Leste

- Or any that had such appearance (set out above)

(The “Relevant Groups”)

And would like data for the following years, broken down by each month:

- 2019

- 2020

- 2021

- 2022 (for this year, up until the FOI response date or whatever are the most recent statistics).

Request:

Provide the number of racist hate crimes and/or hate incidents reported where the victim(s) comprise of the Relevant Groups, broken down by each group where possible.

Please provide the data for my request in an Excel spreadsheet format with suggested row headings by year and month, with column headings:
- Month
- Year
- Number of hate crimes
- Number of hate incidents
- Ethnicity/ethnic appearance

Yours faithfully,

Ms Y Wang

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