Honour-based Violence and Hate Crime

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Dear Cheshire Constabulary,

Can you please advise me:

1) How do you distinguish "honour-based violence" from other forms of violence in terms of recording procedures and statistical analysis?

2) How do you distinguish "hate crime" from other forms of crime in terms of recording procedures and statistical analysis?

Yours faithfully,

Tina Wingfield

Cheshire Constabulary

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Dear Ms Wingfield,

I refer to your recent request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 as set out below:

1) How do you distinguish "honour-based violence" from other forms
of violence in terms of recording procedures and statistical
analysis?

2) How do you distinguish "hate crime" from other forms of crime in
terms of recording procedures and statistical analysis?

In accordance with section 1(1) (b) of the Act our response is provided
below;

1. Honour based violence is a crime or incident which has or may have been
committed to protect or defend the honour of a family and/or a community
and can include assaults, disfigurement, sexual assault and rape, forced
marriage, female genital mutilation, kidnap, false imprisonment or
stalking.
The victims of these crimes are extremely vulnerable. The only method of
capturing whether other offences may have been motivated by 'honour' would
be to examine the MO

2. The only categories nationally acknowledged within the Home Office
Counting Rules For Crime as `Hate Crime` relate to Racial or Religious
Aggravation ONLY, and then only in the following crime categories:

Racially or Religiously Aggravated GBH without Intent.

Racially or Religiously Aggravated ABH.

Racially or Religiously Aggravated Public Fear, Alarm or Distress.

Racially or Religiously Aggravated Criminal Damage.

Again, the only method of capturing whether other offences may have
been motivated by `Hate` such as Homophobia, Transgender, etc: would be to
examine MO`s.

If I can be of any further assistance in this matter, please do not
hesitate to contact me.

If you are not satisfied with the decision applied in this case I enclose
for your attention a copy of the Constabulary's appeal procedures.

(See attached file: FOI Appeals Procedures.Final version.doc)

Regards

John Gannon
Information Compliance
Tel: 01606 364176

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