Race-related hate crime 579/2025

FOI Reference: 579/2025

Request

For a project mapping temporal/ regional hate crime data across the UK, we write to request:

- the number of racist hate crimes and/or hate incidents reported

- by month and year

- where the victim(s) comprise of the Relevant Groups (see list below), broken down by each group where possible.

And would like data for the following years, broken down by each month:

-  2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 (for this year, up until the FOI response date or whatever are the most recent statistics).

Please provide the data in an Excel spreadsheet.

If you can’t provide a list of hate crimes by month/ year with individual details, please structure the summarised data with the following column headings:

- Month

- Year

- Number of hate crimes

- Number of hate incidents

- Ethnicity/ethnic appearance

We are interested in the following ‘relevant’ ESEA groups. If, like Police Scotland, you can provide us with all your hate crime data for all ethnic groups, however, please do- it makes it easier to compare trends.

The relevant Groups:

- Chinese

- East Asian

- Southeast Asian

- “Oriental”

- Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, and South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Laos, Indonesia, Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia and Timor-Leste

- Or any that had such appearance (set out above)

- Asian (less useful as we need the granularity)

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.

Response

Volumes of all Race-Related Hate Crimes:

Breakdown of Race-Related Hate Crimes by Ethnicity (Due to changes in crime recording systems, the data has been broken into two tables):

It should be noted that as a result of the systems adopted by Dyfed-Powys Police in relation to the recording of such information that the information released may or may not be accurate.

Furthermore, it should also be noted that Police forces in the United Kingdom are routinely required to provide crime statistics to government bodies and the recording criteria is set nationally. However, the systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the crime data. It should be noted that for these reasons this force's response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other response you may receive.

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 11/09/2025)