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Corporate Communications Department

Force Headquarters, PO Box 37, Valley Road,

Portishead, Bristol, BS20 8QJ

Email [email address]    

Amber Mehmood Our 792/19
Reference
[FOI #582666 email] Date 08
July
2019

Dear Mehmood

I write in connection with your request for information dated 12^th June
under the Freedom of Information Act.

Specifically you asked:

Could you please provide me with the total number of reported Islamophobic
hate crimes for each year over the last six years? ( from 1st January 2013
to May 2019).

Could the data be broken down into each separate district

Our response:

In order to identify the information we have searched for hate crimes
where the type is recorded as religion – ‘anti Muslim’.

The information is only available from 2016 onwards.

Please see attached.

Yours sincerely

Rebecca Pritchard

Freedom of Information Officer

Corporate Communications Dept  |  Avon and Somerset Police

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