Anti-Semitic crimes and incidents - 342/2021
We would like to know about antisemitic crimes and non-criminal antisemitic incidents recorded by Dyfed Powys Police, with numbers of crimes and incidents individually broken down for each month of 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
We will use the data to publish a crime audit to provide a valuable insight into the prevalence of antisemitic crimes and non-criminal antisemitic incidents in the United Kingdom since 2016.
Request
Our request is as follows:
Question 1a
If Dyfed Powys Police flags antisemitic crimes separately, please provide us with:
- The total number of antisemitic crimes recorded in each month of 2018, 2019 and 2020;
- The total number of antisemitic violent crimes recorded, in each month of 2018, 2019 and 2020, which fell into the Home Office categories of “homicide”, “violence with injury” and “racially or religiously aggravated assault without injury”;
- The total number of antisemitic crimes, in each month of 2018, 2019 and 2020, that resulted in charges being brought; and
- The total number of antisemitic non-criminal incidents recorded in each month of 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Question 1b
If Dyfed Powys Police does not flag antisemitic crimes separately, please search for crimes and non-criminal incidents in your CRIS using the following whole keywords (i.e. not parts of words, but whole words, so that when you search for “Jew”, entries containing “jewellery” are not returned). Since use of all the keywords might prevent you from answering this FOI request due to excessive cost, please only use the keywords (starting at the top) that can be used without incurring excessive cost.
The keywords are:
- Jew/Jews/Jewish/Judaism
- Semite/Semitic/Semitism
- Antisemite/Antisemitic/Antisemitism
- Yid/Yids/Yiddo/Yiddish
When responding to Q1 or Q1a, please use the following table format, with the following headings:
- Month
- Number of antisemitic crimes recorded
- Number of antisemitic crimes involving allegations of violence*
- Number of antisemitic crimes resulting in charges being brought
- Number of antisemitic incidents reported
*For the purpose of this request, antisemitic crimes involving allegations of violence are those antisemitic crimes which fell into the Home Office categories of “homicide”, “violence with injury” and “racially or religiously aggravated assault without injury”.
Question 2
Please provide us with the name, e-mail address and telephone number of Dyfed Powys Police’s single point of contact (SPOC) for antisemitic crime, or if Dyfed Powys Police does not have a SPOC specifically for antisemitic crime, then please provide the name, e-mail address and telephone number
of the SPOC for hate crime generally.