Non hate crime incidents 401/2022

FOI Reference: 401/2022

Request:

• How many non-crime hate incidents have been recorded by your force in the 2021calendar year?

NOTE: I understand non-crime hate incidents are recorded through the ‘Hate Crime

Operational Guidance (HCOG)’ issued by the College of Policing. According to the guidance, a non-crime hate incident is an incident which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards one of the following: disability; race; religion; transgender identity and sexual orientation.

• In relation to the non-crime hate incidents recorded in 2021 please provide a breakdown by the hate motivation? Please provide this using the categories you use for this task, however, I would expect that some or all of the following would be included: Alternative subculture, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, transgender, anti-semitic, asylum seeker/refugee, gypsy/traveller, islamaphobic and migrant worker.

• In relation to all non-crime hate incidents that were logged by your force in the calendar month of September 2021 could you please provide me with

• the exact nature of the actions or exact words used,

• where it was carried out (either a location such as school, workplace, street etc, or a specific social media platform/internet, and

• the age of the perpetrator if known.

NOTE: In Question 3 I am content for any details to be redacted so that the identity of the

victim and perpetrator are not disclosed, but I would like as much detail about the

circumstances of the incident as possible.

Response 1:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:

• For the period covering the calendar year of 2021 there were a total of 119 non-crime hate incidents.

Response 2:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:

Response 3:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:

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It should be noted that owing to the systems adopted by Dyfed-Powys Police in relation to the recording of such matters the information provided may or may not be accurate.       

Police Forces in the United Kingdom are routinely required to provide crime statistics to government bodies and the recoding criteria is set nationally.  However, the systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the 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 04/07/22)