Police Scotland discovers just 3 per cent of 7,000 complaints are actually hate crimes
from The Christian Institute:
Police Scotland has been flooded with over 7,000 hate crime complaints in the first week of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act coming into force, but only three per cent were assessed to be criminal acts.
In total, just 240 of the complaints were determined to be hate crimes, while 30 were recorded as ‘non-crime hate incidents’. The police force said the “vast majority” of the 7,327 reports made between April 1 and 7 were anonymous.
Although the new law remains highly controversial, significant amendments were made to the original Bill to stop it posing a major threat to evangelism and Christian comment on sexual ethics, following a campaign by The Christian Institute-backed group Free to Disagree.
‘Disaster’
General Secretary of the Scottish Police Federation David Kennedy said: “It’s a financial disaster in the making and at no time was any financial provision afforded to the service when the law came into force. The amount of police time that is being wasted is not proportionate to the outcome.”
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