Non-crime hate incidents should be scrapped, police leaders say

Non-crime hatred incidents should beryllium scrapped and replaced with a "common sense" system, constabulary leaders are acceptable to recommend.

The strategy would mean lone the astir superior incidents are recorded arsenic anti-social behaviour.

The proposal is portion of a reappraisal by leaders astatine the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) and College of Policing, which is acceptable to beryllium published adjacent period and fixed to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.

Non-crime hatred incidents are perceived to beryllium motivated by hostility oregon prejudice towards definite characteristics, specified arsenic contention oregon gender, but bash not conscionable the threshold of a transgression offence.

Rather than logging hatred incidents connected a transgression database, the program would dainty them arsenic quality reports, with officers fixed a "common sense" checklist.

The checklist is intended to guarantee officers people lone superior anti-social behaviour, specified arsenic antisemitism, Lord Herbert of South Downs, president of the College of Policing, told The Telegraph.

He said that non-crime hatred incidents would "go arsenic a concept", with the system, which dates backmost to 1999, nary longer "fit for purpose".

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The NPCC reappraisal was announced aft the Metropolitan Police said successful October that it would no longer analyse non-crime hatred incidents.

Britain's biggest constabulary unit made the announcement aft revealing Father Ted creator Graham Linehan volition look nary further action aft helium was arrested astatine Heathrow Airport connected suspicion of inciting unit implicit 3 posts helium made connected X astir transgender issues.