HATE CRIME PROCEDURES

Hate crime

Hate crime is any criminal offence committed against a person or property that is motivated by hostility towards someone based on their disability, race, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation.
The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the Crown Prosecution Service have a nationally agreed definition of Hate Crime. Hate crimes are taken to mean any crime where the perpetrator's hostility or prejudice against an identifiable group of people is a factor in determining who is victimised. This is a broad and inclusive definition. A victim does not have to be a member of the group. In fact, anyone could be a victim of a hate crime.
The CPS and ACPO have agreed 5 monitored strands of hate crime as set out below.

Hate crime

A hate crime is any criminal offence that is motivated by hostility or prejudice based upon the victim's:

• disability
• race
• religion or belief
• sexual orientation
• transgender identity

Hate crime can take many forms including:

• physical attacks such as physical assault, damage to property, offensive graffiti and arson
• threat of attack including offensive letters, abusive or obscene telephone calls, groups hanging around to intimidate, and unfounded, malicious complaints
• verbal abuse, insults or harassment - taunting, offensive leaflets and posters, abusive gestures, dumping of rubbish outside homes or through letterboxes, and bullying at school or in the workplace .

What is racist hate crime?

Any criminal offence which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person's race or perceived race.

The Crown Prosecution Service. (2012). HATE CRIME. Available: http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/fact_sheets/hate_crime/. Last accessed 27 Nov 2012.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION, please find bellow attached a document that represents all the procedure that ALL POLICE OFFICERS have to follow in the case of a hate crime / incident report.

The below document is very important as it highlights procedures such as ownership - i.e. no Sargeant or Constabulary can assess it to be a crime or an incident - and it will help reflect that our victim - Mr Cercel was both provided false and misleading information as police officers would manifest a discriminative behaviour towards him thus infringing his fundamental rights. 

 

Legal Procedures - HATE CRIMES