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Dear Mr Banner
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: RFI 7717/16
I write in connection with your request for information received on 3
October 2016 .
In order to be able to respond to your request I require further
information from you. Please would you clarify point 2 - do you mean
Crimes against somebody nationality, what offences does this refer to.
(1.  How many crimes were committed between 24th June (the day after the
Brexit vote) and 30th September that were listed as i) race hate crimes or
ii) crimes against somebody nationality.2.  Could statistics also be
published for the years previous back to 2005, during the same time span
(24th June to 30th September).
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Dear Mr Banner
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: RFI 7717/16
I write in connection with your request for information which was received
on 3rd October 2016.  Please find below the response to your request:
I am inquiring to ask how many crimes were committed between 24th June
(the day after the Brexit vote) and 30th September that were listed as
i) race hate crimes or
ii) crimes against somebody nationality (crime that somebody committed on
the basis of the victim's nationality... basically the same as Point 1 but
on the basis of their nationality instead of race. i.e because they were
from a different country).
iii) Could statistics also be published for the years previous back to
2005, during the same time span (24th June to 30th September).
 
REPLY: Please be advised that hate crimes are recorded through the use of
markers on crimes rather than to categorise them specifically as hate
crimes. Please see the tables provided for all offences where the offence
had a marker applied for a racial hate crime in the event aggravating
factor field in Crimes recorded from 24th June - 30th September for the
years 2005 to 2016. To provide a complete picture of hate crime in this
period, 'crimed' incidents have also been provided, which are incidents
where the circumstances do not amount to a notifiable crime but are
recorded on the crime recording system for the purposes of building an
intelligence picture around the nominals involved. Crimed incidents data
also have markers held in the event description field.
Crimes with a racial hate marker:

FOI Period Total
24/06/2005-30/09/2005 196
24/06/2006-30/09/2006 309
24/06/2007-30/09/2007 180
24/06/2008-30/09/2008 162
24/06/2009-30/09/2009 152
24/06/2010-30/09/2010 152
24/06/2011-30/09/2011 171
24/06/2012-30/09/2012 158
24/06/2013-30/09/2013 125
24/06/2014-30/09/2014 141
24/06/2015-30/09/2015 194
Grand Total 1940

Crimed Incidents with a racial hate marker:

FOI Period Total
24/06/2005-30/09/2005 64
24/06/2006-30/09/2006 83
24/06/2007-30/09/2007 74
24/06/2008-30/09/2008 73
24/06/2009-30/09/2009 28
24/06/2010-30/09/2010 61
24/06/2011-30/09/2011 84
24/06/2012-30/09/2012 66
24/06/2013-30/09/2013 61
24/06/2014-30/09/2014 54
24/06/2015-30/09/2015 36
Grand Total 684

Please be advised that there is not a separate marker for nationality and
these occurrences are captured through the use of racial markers, as
above. Therefore we are unable to provide specific information in relation
to crimes against individuals due to their nationality.
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided by our
SSI Department is as accurate as possible
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complaint.
Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter, please write
or telephone the Information Compliance Unit quoting the reference number
above.
Yours sincerely
 
Mrs R Williams
Information Compliance Unit
Warwickshire Police & West Mercia Police
PO Box 55
Hindlip
Worcester
WR3 8SP
01905 331545 / 331565
 
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