Hate Crime Statistics

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Dear Durham Constabulary,

Please provide the following information in respect of every full year from January 1st 2018 onwards.

1. The total number of hate crimes recorded by the Constabulary, broken down by individual ‘hate’ characteristics (e.g. Race, disability etc.)

2. With respect to crimes that were so recorded due to the hate element being related to ‘gender identity’, ‘gender reassignment’ or ‘transphobia’(or whichever similar term the Force may use) please provide a detailed breakdown of the specific crimes involved e.g. rape, murder, assault, harassment etc.)

3. The total number of non-crime hate incidents recorded, similarly broken down as per question 1.

4. With respect to non-crime hate incidents that were so recorded due to the hate element being related to ‘gender identity’, ‘gender reassignment’ or ‘transphobia’(or whichever similar term the Force may use) please provide a detailed breakdown of the specific type of incident involved.

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Martin J Lugsdin

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Daily Telegraph 15/4/23:

College of Policing accused of watering down Suella Braverman’s free speech charter

'Some 120,000 people had NCHIs recorded against them between 2014 and 2019, including children. They show up in background checks when applying for certain jobs, such as a teacher.
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Toby Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union, said: “The intention of the Home Secretary could not be clearer: she wants officers to stop policing our tweets and start policing our streets. But the College of Policing, which is an unelected quango, seems determined to thwart her and has given it a woke spin.”'

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/co...

The Rt Hon Chris Philp MP 13/4/23:

'We are also making clear frivolous allegations of criminal offences should not be recorded as a criminal offence unless a criminal threshold has clearly been met. We don’t think being rude or insulting is a police matter. Officers are not the thought police. And where something is reported and it doesn’t meet that clear criminal threshold, we don’t want that being investigated or to be recorded as a crime, we don’t want to waste police time on that kind of thing. We will very shortly be publishing guidance clarifying where that threshold should sit.'

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/c...

Non-Crime Hate Incidents Draft Code of Practice on the Recording and Retention of Personal Data

Statement by Chris Philp on 13 March 2023

'The code emphasises the importance of free speech with case studies that are designed to assist the police in considering how the right to freedom of expression should be taken into consideration. The code clarifies that debate, humour, satire and personally-held views which are lawfully expressed are not, by themselves, grounds for the recording of a non-crime hate incident. Furthermore, the code sets out that a non-crime hate incident should not be recorded if the report is deemed by the police to be trivial, irrational, malicious, or if there is no basis to conclude that it was motivated by intentional hostility.'

https://questions-statements.parliament....

Non-crime hate incidents: draft code of practice
Published 13 March 2023

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...

Daily Mail:

'Police must prioritise freedom of speech over people taking offence under long-awaited rules unveiled today.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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