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Hate crimes 055/20

Date Responded 22 January 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 each of the financial years 2014/15, 15/16, 16/17, 17/18 and 18/19, can you please provide the following information:

  1. The number of non-crime hate incidents (also known as hate incidents), as defined by the College of Policing, recorded by the Force.
  2. The category recorded for each incident eg transphobia, racism, misogyny.

In Response:

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.

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

This data is collated using the five monitored strands of hate crime stated in the publication ‘Hate Crime Operational Guidance (HCOG)’ issued by the College of Policing.

These are incidents with a hate qualifier attached that have no recorded offence linked.

2019/20 data as of December 2019

 

DISABILITY

FAITH

HOMOPHOBIC

RACE

TRANSGENDER

FY14/15

65

24

57

340

18

FY15/16

42

18

24

166

13

FY16/17

29

22

20

130

6

FY17/18

24

23

24

102

6

FY18/19

38

17

28

120

6

FY19/20

54

14

22

103

8

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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