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Thank you for your Freedom of information (FOI) request logged under the
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Information Request  

I write to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requesting
information on the number of LGBT hate crimes recorded by Essex Police.
Specifically, would you be able to outline the following: The number
of LGBT hate crimes recorded by Essex Police in the calendar year 2023 in:

• Southend

• Colchester

• Chelmsford

• Basildon

• Harlow

• Clacton

• Rest of Essex

 

Could you please provide the same breakdown for the years 2022, 2021,
2020, 2019, and 2018.

  

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Information 

Caveat: This information is correct as at 14.02.24.

Please not the following points:

- A search was done on all Home Office Classification NC/10 incidents
between the Created dates of 01/01/2018 and 31/12/2023.

- A filter was used on one report table to only include Offence
Investigation Type ‘CRIME’ incidents and Hate Crime types ‘Hate Incident –
Homophobic’ and ‘Hate Incident - Transgender’ and on another report table
to only include Offence Investigation Type ‘NONCRIME’ incidents and Hate
Crime types ‘Hate Incident – Homophobic’ and ‘Hate Incident -
Transgender’.

- The are two results tables, one for Hate Crimes and one for Non Hate
Crime Incidents, both are broken down by year, Hate Incident type and
District as requested.

- Clacton District has been included in the tables as Tending.

 

Homophobic and Transgender Hate Crimes by Created Year and District (2018
to 2023)

Created Year
Hate Crime type and district 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Grand Total
Hate Incident - Homophobic 293 402 445 590 571 511 2,812
Basildon 34 61 60 86 91 52 384
Chelmsford 21 33 47 55 40 45 241
Colchester 47 73 47 56 62 61 346
Harlow 20 26 21 34 43 28 172
Southend-on-Sea 53 68 74 87 83 54 419
Tendring 26 33 48 53 48 62 270
Rest of Essex 92 107 148 218 203 208 976
Non-Athena force 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
no district data 0 1 0 0 1 1 3
Hate Incident - Transgender 61 85 67 110 145 87 555
Basildon 15 11 5 15 20 28 94
Chelmsford 4 7 5 2 4 2 24
Colchester 6 13 14 22 13 9 77
Harlow 1 6 1 4 8 5 25
Southend-on-Sea 10 21 13 24 24 12 104
Tendring 13 5 5 8 23 9 63
Rest of Essex 12 22 24 35 53 20 166
no district data 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
Grand Total 354 487 512 700 716 598 3,367

 

Homophobic and Transgender Non-Hate Crime Incidents by Created Year and
District (2018 to 2023)

Created Year
Non Hate Crime incident type and 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Grand Total
district
Hate Incident - Homophobic 49 46 53 65 89 79 381
Basildon 10 7 7 11 12 6 53
Chelmsford 2 2 4 4 15 6 33
Colchester 4 7 6 7 9 10 43
Harlow 3 5 7 3 8 10 36
Southend-on-Sea 11 4 8 9 13 9 54
Tendring 5 8 4 5 5 9 36
Rest of Essex 14 13 17 24 26 28 122
no district data 0 0 0 2 1 1 4
Hate Incident - Transgender 34 17 23 22 14 29 139
Basildon 4 2 2 0 3 6 17
Chelmsford 2 1 2 1 0 3 9
Colchester 3 4 3 4 1 3 18
Harlow 0 0 0 2 1 2 5
Southend-on-Sea 14 4 4 7 5 5 39
Tendring 3 2 1 3 1 2 12
Rest of Essex 8 4 11 4 3 7 37
Non-Athena force 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
no district data 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Grand Total 83 63 76 87 103 108 520

 

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From: Info Rights Freedom Essex
Sent: 12 February 2024 12:50
To: Daniel Rees <[17][FOI #1084397 email]>
Subject: FOI 19742 Number of LGBT Hate Crimes 2018 to 2023

 

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that are submitted at the same time, as per [18]Section 14 of the FOIA.
Furthermore, if the information sought is already publicly available, you
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the above reference, and a member of the team will assist.    

 

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[26]https://www.essex.police.uk/hyg/fpnessex...

 

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