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Sarah Phillimore, barrister and co-founder of campaign group Fair Cop, told The Telegraph she hopes the review “marks the beginning of the end for the well-intentioned but deeply flawed hate crimes guidance”. However, the College of Policing’s Iain Raphael has warned that, without recording the incidents, officers risk “having a blind spot in their local understanding, hampering their ability to protect members of vulnerable and marginalised groups”. Raphael cited the Stephen Lawrence inquiry report as showing the need for officers to understand “how hate can escalate”.  How ...

Police recorded a 'hate incident' against a retired teacher who wrote a 'polite' letter to a campaigner defending a mother's right to abort a baby with Down's syndrome.  Douglas Kedge, 85, penned a letter to a woman protesting about an episode of Emmerdale in which a couple decided to terminate a pregnancy after the baby was diagnosed with the genetic disorder. He wrote that although he understood some may regard having a child with Down's syndrome as a 'great privilege and joy', there are other 'perfectly decent people' who may wish to avoid 'what could well be for them an appalling change ...

Priti Patel calls for review of police approach to ‘hate incidents’ Priti Patel calls for review of police approach to ‘hate incidents’ 45 minutes ago Number 10 The Home Secretary has called for an investigation into the way the police record ‘non-crime hate incidents’ (NCHIs). Currently, College of Policing rules state that when someone claims they have been a victim of hatred, officers must keep a record against the name of the accused person even where no crime was actually committed. This can take place without any investigation of the claims. But Patel is concerned that the ...

Share Even if police find no evidence that a crime has been committed, if anyone believes the incident was motivated by hate then officers are obliged to make a record. These records, which stay on the system for six years, can show up on enhanced DBS checks. And they could ultimately jeopardise a person's career, even though the individual was not found guilty of, or even charged with, a hate crime. More than 120,000 people had non-crime hate incidents recorded against them last year Critics of the policy, which was introduced in College of Policing guidance last year, have highlighed the im...

Last modified on Tue 9 Mar 2021 14.14 EST Guidance requiring police officers to record hate incidents “without any evidence of hate” unlawfully restricts freedom of speech, the court of appeal has heard. Lawyers for Harry Miller, a former police officer who was visited at work by other officers over alleged transphobia, told the judges the College of Policing’s guidance went too far. “A policy that mandates the recording of a ‘hate incident’ without there having to be any evidence of hate is quintessentially irrational and unreasonable as a matter of common law,” his lawyer Ian ...