Hate Crime (1270A/21)
Request
- How many hate crimes did your police force record, as having been committed against people who identify as transgender?
Please respond for the following financial years:
- a) Starting in April 2019 and finishing at the end of March 2020
- b) Starting in April 2020 and finishing at the end of March 2021
- Of these crimes, how many resulted in a prosecution?
Please respond for the following financial years:
- a) Starting in April 2019 and finishing at the end of March 2020
- b) Starting in April 2020 and finishing at the end of March 2021
- How many hate crimes did your police force record, as having been committed based on sexual orientation?
Please respond for the following financial years:
- a) Starting in April 2019 and finishing at the end of March 2020
- b) Starting in April 2020 and finishing at the end of March 2021
- Of these crimes, how many resulted in a prosecution?
Please respond for the following financial years:
- a) Starting in April 2019 and finishing at the end of March 2020
- b) Starting in April 2020 and finishing at the end of March 2021
Response
Please find attached our response and note that the force is also unable to provide prosecution data as this information is not routinely fed back into our systems, and we do not have access to magistrate’s court data. Therefore we have instead provided outcomes.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.