Dear Mr Rashid

RE: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION - Our Ref: 006476/20

With reference to your e-mail received 19/11/2020 requesting information:

- The total number of hate crimes reported per year for the last 10 years? (Including up to date 2020 figures)

- Breakdown of types of hate crimes reported per year for the last 10 years? (Including up to date 2020 figures)

- The total number of arrests made as a result of hate crime incidents per year for the last 10 years? (Including up to date 2020 figures)

This is to inform you that Northamptonshire Police are currently dealing with high levels of demand for information. Every effort will be made to ensure that you receive an appropriate response on time, however, we may not be able to complete the response to your request within 20 working days. The ICO is aware and we are currently enacting a recovery plan.

On behalf of Northamptonshire Police, I do apologise for any inconvenience that may be caused by this delay and if you wish to discuss this any further then please contact the undersigned.

Northamptonshire Police provides a review and appeals procedure within the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. If you decide to make an appeal and, having followed the full process you are still dissatisfied, you will then have the right to direct your comments to the Information Commissioner who will give due consideration to the matter. See Appendix 'a' attached.

Northamptonshire Police routinely publish information on our website via the Publication Scheme. The aim of the Publication Scheme is to promote openness and transparency by voluntarily placing information into the public arena.
The Disclosure Log contains copies of information that has been disclosed by Northamptonshire Police in response to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Whilst it is not possible to publish all responses we will endeavour to publish those where we feel that the information disclosed is in the wider public interest. The Disclosure Log will be updated once responses have been sent to the requester.

I have provided the relevant link below.

https://www.northants.police.uk/foi-ai/a...

Yours sincerely

Gemma Barrie
C1374 Gemma Barrie| Freedom of Information Officer and Researcher
Force Information Unit | Professional Standards Department
Northamptonshire Police

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Dear Mr Rashid   

RE: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION Our Ref: 006476/20

With reference to your e-mail received 19/11/2020 requesting information
reproduced below:

- The total number of hate crimes reported per year for the last 10 years?
(Including up to date 2020 figures)

- Breakdown of types of hate crimes reported per year for the last 10
years? (Including up to date 2020 figures)

- The total number of arrests made as a result of hate crime incidents per
year for the last 10 years? (Including up to date 2020 figures)

The information you are requesting is not held by Northamptonshire Police
in any reasonably retrievable form. The only means of establishing
information of the nature you are requesting would be by way of manual
examination of each arrest record linked to hate crimes. Our information
retrieval process generally relies on a computer ran report which captures
any information recorded upon the surface of a record or within specified
fields. Where relevant information is held deeper in the record, or
outside of a specified field, a manual assessment is usually required to
retrieve that information. To determine if an arrest was made because of a
hate crime we would be required to read through all arrests linked to hate
crimes to ascertain if this was why the arrest was made. The only strand
with a home office code is racially or religiously aggravated.

Please also note, due to a change in systems we can only supply arrest
data from March 2016.

It is my assessment that the cost of providing you with the information
requested would exceed the 'appropriate level' as set out in the Freedom
of Information (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.

My assessment is that it would cost 3,700 (approximate number of arrest
records linked to hate crimes) x 5 minutes each (minimum) = over 308 hours
at £25 per hour to respond to your request, which exceeds the 'appropriate
limit' (currently £450 for 'prescribed costs').

In view of the above, and in accordance with the provisions of the Freedom
of Information Act 2000, please take this letter as a Refusal Notice.

You may wish to refine and resubmit your request so that it reduces the
costs shown above and is then within the 'appropriate limit' shown above.
(I cannot think of a means to refine the request in order to provide the
information you are seeking) but if you would like some further
information about how to proceed with your request then please contact the
undersigned.

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a
specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an
indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another.
Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the
procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses
between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative
purposes.

Although excess cost removes the Force’s obligations under the Freedom of
Information Act, as a gesture of goodwill, I have supplied information,
relevant to your request, which was retrieved or available before it was
realised that the fees limit would be exceeded. I trust this is helpful,
but it does not affect our legal right to rely on the fees regulations for
the remainder of your request.

Not all hate incidents will amount to criminal offences, but it is equally
important that these are reported and recorded by the police. Therefore I
have provided both Hate Non-Crimes and Hate Crimes. Data up until Oct
2020.

Hate
Non-Crimes 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Disability 42 36 38 27 62 55 54 66 58 83 81
Racial 323 405 390 361 450 457 438 543 629 846 595
Religious 8 8 6 10 19 20 31 59 31 49 26
Sexual
Orientation 62 44 44 29 44 59 74 72 74 160 109
Transgender 3 1 3 1 5 8 13 7 25 38 19
                       
Hate Crimes 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Disability 22 69 71 63 71 49 75 89 70 49 38
Racial 439 319 405 445 528 472 453 517 383 241 347
Religious 9 16 10 12 27 21 31 62 32 11 10
Sexual
Orientation 61 55 57 66 95 57 68 72 59 51 77
Transgender 3 3 6 6 9 7 13 17 17 10 5

I trust you find this information to be satisfactory but if you have any
further queries please do not hesitate to contact me.

Northamptonshire Police provides a review and appeals procedure within the
terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. If you decide to make an
appeal and, having followed the full process you are still dissatisfied,
you will then have the right to direct your comments to the Information
Commissioner who will give due consideration to the matter. See Appendix
'a' attached.

Yours sincerely

Gemma Barrie

C1374 Gemma Barrie| Freedom of Information Officer and Researcher

Force Information Unit | Professional Standards Department

Northamptonshire Police

Telephone: 101 | Ext No. 343701/ 341172 - (If calling from outside
Northamptonshire, please call 03000 111 222)

Email: [1][email address]

Address: Force Headquarters, Wootton Hall, Wootton Hall Park, Northampton
NN4 0JQ

Northamptonshire Police "Putting Communities First"

The content of this email should be treated as RESTRICTED unless otherwise
indicated

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