FOI 555/25 Non-Crime Hate Incidents

Date: 16/06/25

Enquiry Reference:  555 - 25                                                            

I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request. Below is your request and our response.

1) How many non-crime hate incidents have been recorded by your force in the (a) 2023 and (b) 2024 calendar year?

NOTE: I understand non-crime hate incidents are recorded through the ‘Hate Crime

Operational Guidance (HCOG)’ issued by the College of Policing. According to the guidance, a

non-crime hate incident is an incident which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to

be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards one of the following: disability; race; religion;

transgender identity and sexual orientation.

1. a) Non crime hate incidents (NCHI) are based on incidents with a relevant hate qualifier applied but there is no crime valid date and where cancelled, duplicates and SGs have been removed.

With that in mind the table below contains all NCHI recorded per calendar year. The increase in 2024 of racial hate NCHI is due to the riots of August.

2023 – 70

2024 - 149

2) In relation to the non-crime hate incidents recorded in 2024 please provide a breakdown by the hate motivation? Please provide this using the categories you use for this task, however, I would expect that some or all of the following would be included: Alternative subculture, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, transgender, anti-semitic, asylum seeker/refugee, gypsy/traveller, islamaphobic and migrant worker.

The below table contains the volumes of NCHI recorded each calendar year by the hate crime type. The categories you see below are the only categories we use (have qualifier flags for) to identify hate incidents/crimes. We do not have specific categories for ‘alternative subculture, antisemitic, asylum seeker/migrant/migrant worker, gypsy/traveller or Islamophobic although some to do with religion, race would come under the categories (qualifier flags) in the table.

3) In relation to all non-crime hate incidents that were logged by your force in the

calendar month of September 2024 could you please provide me with (i) the exact nature of the

actions or exact words used, (ii) where it was carried out (either a location such as school,

workplace, street etc, or a specific social media platform/internet, and (iii) the age of the

perpetrator if known.

NOTE: In Question 3 I am content for any details to be redacted so that the identity of the

victim and perpetrator are not disclosed, but I would like as much detail about the

circumstances of the incident as possible.

2024. a) 1 NCHI recorded in September 2024.

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Yours sincerely

Information Rights Decision Maker