Priti Patel calls on police chiefs to wipe 'non-crime hate incidents'
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...