A review by police leaders is expected to call for non-crime hate incidents to be replaced with a new common sense system, a decision that is backed by Police and Crime Commissioner Donna Jones.
The new scheme would see only the most serious incidents recorded as anti-social behaviour.
Non-crime hate incidents are perceived to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards certain characteristics, such as race or gender, but do not meet the threshold of a criminal offence.
The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and College of Policing will publish their review next month, which will then be given to the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood.
Responding, PCC Donna Jones said:
“Scrapping non‑crime hate incidents is long overdue.
“For years, I’ve led the call for the abolition of this deeply flawed legislation. It was poorly drafted by the previous government and compounded by weak guidance from the College of Policing.
“Officers have been stuck in the middle, forced to record anything that didn’t meet the criminal threshold and diverting them away from tackling real crimes.
Article continues below this advertisement “The College of Policing and NPCC agree this regime is no longer fit for purpose and it’s right that police leaders present this review to the Home Secretary.
“Communities expect the police to focus on crimes that threaten safety, not online opinions or playground trivialities.
“The proposed replacement must ensure only incidents that meet the criminal threshold are recorded, with truly serious antisocial behaviour logged as intelligence under clear, proportionate criteria.
“That’s how to begin restoring trust in British policing and repair the damage this legislation has caused.”
The mental illness that those who created and implemented these NCHI is thankfully being recognised as a detriment to society
How times have changed since Robert Peels days.
About time too, it was open to abuse and not cost effective. A crime is a crime is a crime. We can’t be made to like different cultures and impaired people while still not actually harming them. An assault is a crime, not liking or even insulting another while not being desirable should not be penalised by the law.
When you see the videos of 5 or 6 police surrounding a house on a Sunday morning before knocking and threatening the owner because someone posted something that wasn’t illegal, but ‘might’ upset a snowflake, without even knowing who posted what, you realise why support for the police is at a record low. When you add the arrest and imprisonment of those who posted something that was deemed to break the law, but without an actual complaint in some cases, or a man holding a sign that upset the police so much he was arrested, imprisoned and later committed suicide, you have to wonder what the law actually does any more. It certainly killed off free speech, and to be honest, they seem to enjoy it. Something that as an ex special, is hard to admit.
Oh yeah. Now there’s been a public backlash all of a sudden the police are pretending that they are some sort of victim of government policy. Clearly that policy is to somehow criminalise non-criminals in order to advance control. Just like the digital ID cards that 3 million have polled against but will be introduced anyway.
The fact is that a ‘non-criminal hate incident’ is just that – not criminal. As the police are there to tackle actual criminal behaviour – which they have singularly failed to do in matters such as shoplifting and burglary and phone theft and so many others – nobody should co-operate when a non criminal, and very subjective, matter is involved. To do so hands power to a government determined to apply authoritarian measures to the population.
When police involve themselves in non-criminal matters people must resist because the next step will be ‘correction’ centres and ‘re-training’ camps.
Digital ID’s are Blairs baby, and no matter what
they are coming and life the way we knew it is
finished.
Enjoy the next 4 years.