Police have recorded 120,000 cases of ‘non-crime’ hate incidents
by Ryan Fahey, Mailonline:
Police have recorded almost 120,000 ‘non-crime hate incidents’, it was revealed today – as a judge slammed ‘Gestapo’ police for quizzing a businessman at work over his ‘transphobic tweets’.
Despite police accepting that such incidents are not crimes, they have still been logged on a system and can show up in criminal records checks – preventing the accused from getting jobs.
The figures emerged as Harry Miller, a former police officer, won a court victory against Humberside Police after the force investigated him over ‘transphobic tweets’.
Under the Hate Crime Operational Guidelines, adopted in 2014, forces must record any actions deemed to be motivated by an element of hate, such as racism or transgender-phobic comments, even if there is no evidence to prove them.
[…] In figures obtained by the Telegraph, South Wales police were found to have logged the highest number of ‘hate incidents’ with 13,856 cases since 2014.
The Metropolitan Police logged over 9,000 in the same time period.
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