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Hate Crime - 517/20

Date Responded 08 April 2020

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:

For the calendar years 2018 and 2019 and the period 1st January 2020 to 23rd March 2020, please could tell me:

1) The number of race hate crimes recorded against Chinese victims

2) If it is within the time/cost limit set out by the FOI Act, a brief description of each crime listed in your answer to question 1

In Response:

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

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

1&2

This count pertains to any instances of a crime flagged as hate wherein the stated victim self-classes as Chinese.

Offence Description

2018

2019

2020

Assault with Injury

 

 

1

Assault without injury

1

 

 

Criminal damage to a building other than a dwelling

 

1

 

Harassment

1

2

2

Public fear, alarm or distress

3

4

2

Racially or Religiously Aggravated Assault with Injury

1

1

1

Racially or religiously aggravated assault without injury

 

1

1

Racially or Religiously Aggravated Criminal Damage

1

 

 

Racially or religiously aggravated public fear, alarm or distress

7

9

7

Total

14

18

14

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.

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual property rights of Northumbria Police. Your use of the information must be strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended) or such other applicable legislation. In particular, you must not re-use this information for any commercial purpose.

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