Hate crime - 371/18

Date Responded 25 April 2018

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

1. How many hate crimes have been recorded?

2. How many of the above hate crimes pertained to race or ethnicity?

3. How many of the hate crimes pertaining to race or ethnicity were reported by 18-25 year olds?

4. How many of the hate crimes pertaining to race or ethnicity were reported as happening within a higher education facility i.e. university or college?

Please breakdown the data using the time periods below.

March 2013 to February 2014

March 2014 to February 2015

March 2015 to February 2016

March 2016 to February 2017

March 2017 to February 2018

In Response:

We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I provide a response for your attention.

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Corporate Development Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

Data has been collated through a search of all crimes created between 01/03/2013 and 28/02/2018 where there is a hate flag attached. Northumbria Police uses flags for the following hate motivators; race, faith, age, gender, transphobic and disability. Where the request has asked for race or ethnicity motivated hate crime, I have included all crimes with a race flag attached. For question 3, I have included a count of crimes where the victim is recorded as being aged between 18 and 25 when the crime occurred. This may or may not be the person actually reporting the crime. There are 749 race motivated hate crimes where victim details are unknown or the crime is judged as a 'crime against the state' and therefore has no victim. For question 4, we have included a count of crimes where the location category is 'college' or 'university.' Please note, there may be some which occurred within these premises where those keywords were not mentioned.

With the above in mind, I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

Period	No. of Crimes
March 2013 - February 2014	656
March 2014 - February 2015	893
March 2015 - February 2016	1257
March 2016 - February 2017	2160
March 2017 - February 2018	2588
Grand Total	7554

Period	No. of Crimes
March 2013 - February 2014	568
March 2014 - February 2015	753
March 2015 - February 2016	1014
March 2016 - February 2017	1598
March 2017 - February 2018	1655
Grand Total	5588

Period	No. of Crimes
March 2013 - February 2014	89
March 2014 - February 2015	98
March 2015 - February 2016	135
March 2016 - February 2017	179
March 2017 - February 2018	186
Grand Total	687

Period	No. of Crimes
March 2013 - February 2014	3
March 2014 - February 2015	2
March 2015 - February 2016	1
March 2016 - February 2017	2
March 2017 - February 2018	4
Grand Total	12

Disclaimer

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.

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