Sexual Orientation & Transgender Hate Crime - 138/22

Date Responded 15 February 2022

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:

Please provide statistics of hate crime reported to Northumbria Police for sexual orientation and transgender based hate crime for Northumberland over the past 4 years 01/01/2018-31/12/2022. If you can breakdown by month, that would be really useful.

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 with the caveats noted as follows.

• We are unable to supply data for a time period in the future, as per your submission. We have therefore taken the date as up to 31 December 2021 and not 2022.

• Hate crimes are based on the perception of the victim.

Hate Crime Based On Sexual Orientation

Month

2018

2019

2020

2021

Jan

19

25

47

33

Feb

15

31

33

39

Mar

29

41

35

69

Apr

26

37

40

51

May

28

38

35

70

Jun

19

36

39

69

Jul

37

49

71

55

Aug

33

26

63

51

Sep

33

38

44

60

Oct

35

35

66

54

Nov

31

33

41

51

Dec

34

32

45

37

 

Hate Crime Based On Transgender Status

Month

2018

2019

2020

2021

Jan

7

8

7

4

Feb

2

6

2

5

Mar

6

5

4

17

Apr

4

6

2

13

May

5

5

4

16

Jun

6

9

1

12

Jul

11

12

6

4

Aug

4

4

2

13

Sep

11

5

4

11

Oct

5

8

13

11

Nov

7

5

8

9

Dec

5

3

7

9

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