Hate Crime (1258A/21)
Request
Subject: Hate crime
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please tell me:
1) The total number of hate motivated incidents and crimes recorded in the years (please provide a monthly breakdown of possible):
July 2018- July 2019
July 2019- July 2020
July 2020 – July 2021
2) How many of those cases recorded were incidents of homophobia in the years (please provide a monthly breakdown of possible):
July 2018- July 2019
July 2019- July 2020
July 2020 – July 2021
3) From those cases above in relation to homophobic attacks, how many resulted in a conviction in the years:
July 2018- July 2019
July 2019- July 2020
July 2020 – July 2021
3) How many of those cases recorded were incidents of racism in the years: (please provide a monthly breakdown of possible):
July 2018- July 2019
July 2019- July 2020
July 2020 – July 2021
4) From those cases above in relation to racist attacks, how many resulted in a conviction in the years:
July 2018- July 2019
July 2019- July 2020
July 2020 – July 2021
5) How many cases of LGBT domestic abuse complaints have been recorded by the force in the years:
July 2018- July 2019
July 2019- July 2020
July 2020 – July 2021
6) How many cases of hate crime linked to football have been recorded for the years (please provide a monthly breakdown of possible):
July 2018- July 2019
July 2019- July 2020
July 2020 – July 2021
Please supply an additional information such as where the incident took place, such as a football stadium.
7) From those cases above in relation to hate crime linked to football, how many resulted in a conviction in the years:
July 2018- July 2019
July 2019- July 2020
July 2020 – July 2021
Response
Our data are not organised in such a way as to allow us to provide this information within the appropriate (cost) limit within the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act.
This is because we do not have any markers or recording categories on our systems to identify whether a crime/incident is football related. Therefore, in order to determine the information for questions 6 and 7 we would have to manually review every recorded hate crime. To conduct this manual search however would exceed the appropriate limit (FOIA, s.12). Additionally, the force is unable to provide prosecution data for questions 3 and 4 as this information is not routinely fed back into our systems, and we do not have access to magistrate’s court data.
This means that the cost of providing you with the information is above the amount to which we are legally required to respond i.e. the cost of locating and retrieving the information exceeds the ‘appropriate level’ as stated in the Freedom of Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004.
In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, this letter acts as a Refusal Notice for this part of the request and if one part of a request exceeds the fees limit then S12 of the Act applies to the whole request.
Further information on section 12 of FOI is available here:
However, under Section 16 of the Act I have a duty to provide advice and assistance in relation to your request and can provide relevant information for questions 1 – 5 as this was retrieved during our initial research. Please find this attached and note we have provided outcomes instead of convictions.
This should not be taken as a precedent that additional information would be supplied outside of the time/fees legislation for any subsequent requests.