Religious Hate Crimes Dramatically Increase For Second Year In A Row

We were told by Mr Burnham’s office that he meant to refer to specific kinds of crime which have seen an increase in recording over the past year.

The Hate Crime Network has been commissioned by the PCC to provide a third party reporting mechanism for hate crime in the Thames Valley and to engage with communities most at risk of hate crime to raise awareness of what it is and how to report it.

Given the large rises in hate crimes reported during 2014/2015 when compared to 2013/2014, there is the very real possibility that such large rises across the board may not have been due to an increased awareness by members of the public of what hate crime work is and where hate crimes can be reported in.

The Prime Minister said the increase in hate crime was “unacceptable”.

Of these, 192 were categorised as concerning race; 12 based on religious hatred; 11 on disability; 25 reflected sexual orientation; six transgender; and 17 other.

Victims of hate crime are being urged to come forward, as it’s revealed 765 incidents have been reported to Cheshire police in the a year ago. In other words, the data seems to suggest that a few victims will suffer both in the context of racial and religious abuse and the link factor between all of the major national and global trigger points are that Muslim communities were targeted.

Inspector Lynda Lang of British Transport Police (BTP) welcomed Glasgow’s first Hate Crime Awareness Week.

Earlier this year the ONS warned that even initial estimates had shown the major change in the way the crime survey works would lead to a rise of up to 3.8 million offences a year.

According to The Independent, UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that anti-Muslim hate crimes are to be recorded as a separate category for the first time by police in England and Wales.

Officers are also holding events in local communities and will be supporting Disability Equality North West’s purple ribbon campaign by wearing ribbons containing a message in support of those affected by hate crime.

“There is a lot of support available for victims of hate crime, including people who are specially trained to recognise the sensitivities around these crimes”.

The data will pose a major problem for Theresa May, the Home Secretary, who has repeatedly claimed that crime levels are in decline, despite fears the figures were missing out large chunks of fraud and electronic crime.

Statistics show that police recorded 52,528 hate crimes in 2014/15, up from 44,471 in 2013/14. A spokesperson for the group “Stonewall” said although it was a “sign of progress” that more people were willing to report hate crimes, “It is shocking that in 2015 many lesbians and gay, bi and trans people still face violence, intimidation, and threats simply because of who they are”.

Mark Ilderton, Network Rail station manager for Glasgow Central, said: “Glasgow Central is Scotland’s biggest and busiest station and victims or witnesses who do not feel comfortable speaking directly to the police around Hate Crime now have the opportunity to speak to one of our team instead”.