Hate crimes against children 194/2022
FOI Reference: 194/2022
Request:
Please may you provide me with:
- The total number of race hate crime offences against children (under 18s) recorded in the last 5 years (numbers preferably broken down by financial years e.g. 2020/21).
- The type of race hate crime offences these were and what they fall under e.g. physical abuse, verbal abuse, online abuse etc.
- A breakdown of the ages of the victims.
- How many of these offences ended in prosecution?
Clarification:
Clarification was sough in relation to question 4 and prosecution was defined as the number of individuals charged/summonsed and the number found guilty at court.
Response 1:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:
|
Year |
No. of race hate crimes against under 18's |
|
2016/17 |
8 |
|
2017/18 |
18 |
|
2018/19 |
39 |
|
2019/20 |
46 |
|
2020/21 |
61 |
|
Total |
172 |
Response 2:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:
|
Type of crime |
Total |
|
ASSABHR Racially or Religiously Aggravated Assault with Injury |
16 |
|
ASSCOMM Assault without injury |
1 |
|
ASSCOMMR Racially/Religiously Aggravated Assault without injury |
21 |
|
ASSHARM Assault with Intent to Cause Serious Harm |
1 |
|
CDAMOTHR Racially/Religiously Aggravated Criminal Damage |
2 |
|
CDAMTH Threats or Possession with Intent to Commit Criminal Damage |
1 |
|
HARASS4A Public Fear, Alarm or Distress - Public Order Act Sec 4a |
1 |
|
MALCOMMS Malicious Communications |
21 |
|
RACIALFAD Racially/Religiously Aggravated Public Fear, Alarm or Distress |
68 |
|
RACIALHARASS Racially/Religiously Aggravated Harassment |
39 |
|
THREATKILL Threats to kill |
1 |
|
Total |
172 |
|
Type of abuse |
Total |
|
Physical |
39 |
|
Verbal |
110 |
|
Online* |
34 |
|
Other |
2 |
*Please note: the figures provided for 'online' relate to crimes with a cyber/digital marker
Response 3:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:
|
Age Group |
Total |
|
0 - 7 |
4 |
|
8 - 11 |
53 |
|
12 - 15 |
87 |
|
16 - 17 |
27 |
|
Age not recorded |
1 |
|
Total |
172 |
Response 4:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:
|
|
Outcome |
|
Charge/summons |
11 |
|
Found guilty at court |
7 |
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 22/03/22)