Sandown Councillors, Broadway Centre users and police officers have stepped out to support the campaign to stop hate crime.
To mark National Hate Crime Awareness Week, which took place from October 9th-16th, officers from Shanklin Police Station, including PCSO Fiona Hyslop, visited the Broadway Centre in Broadway, Sandown.
They spoke to local residents and Sandown mayor Paddy Lightfoot about what a hate crime is and how to report it, to raise awareness of the issue.
This comes as the Broadway Centre is set to become a Third Party Reporting Centre, which allows victims of hate crime to report incidents without having to speak directly to the police.
PCSO Fiona Hyslop added:
“Sandown residents have been very supportive during a difficult period, and we encourage residents to report incidents immediately, no matter how insignificant they seem.
“Getting a Third Party Reporting Centre in Sandown means residents have another way they can tell us about hate crimes in way they may feel more comfortable with, rather than calling 101 or reporting to us online, and helps us build an even stronger picture of the issues our communities face.
“We take every report seriously and we will do all we can to make sure victims feel heard.”
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Mr Lightfoot said:
“We fully the support the work of Fiona, Ash and the team, and are working to provide a monthly drop-in facility to enable residents to report incidents or discuss concerns with the team, following the success of the Stop Hate Crime Campaign.
“Local residents are fully aware of the challenges faced locally by the Police, and the Town Council will do all that it can to support initiatives and campaigns that highlight the concerns of the community, and the provision of a drop-in facility would be part of that response.”
To report a hate crime to the police directly, call 101 or visit the Hampshire Constabulary website.
To report via a third party, visit the True Vision website at https://www.report-it.org.uk/ or find a list of Third Party Reporting Centres here: https://www.hampshire-pcc.gov.uk/get-involved/taking-action/hatecrime
First, How about fixing the broken trust I feel the majority of the public have with the police..?! My experience of late has been nothing more than shambolic. Respect has to be earned.
perhaps they could make more of an effort in removing the drunks and junkies from the sea front areas, deal with the shoplifters, deal with the anti social behaviour and deal with the mess these layabouts create rather than devoting so much time and resources to hate crime – of which the majority is name calling – which children are taught to ignore and rise above. You know sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
Don’t you understand? This is easy PR for them to give the impression they are doing something, but in reality they cant even handle the easy policeable crimes like anti-social behaviour and drugs.
Sending two plastic police officers to a event is just lip service to give the impression they are fighting the good fight on all fronts.
It’s not always names will never hurt me, it often leads to violence
Try preaching the stop hate message to those who not only hate, but use knives, bombs, cars, acid, and gang violence to do more than just say a bad word.
No wonder the world is in the mess it is. Do gooders target the wrong people because it is not PC anymore to tell the truth and we have to blame everyone else ‘but’.
Seems to me, that those who sometime use what is not ‘deemed’ hate crime, are only saying what the majority of the public saw and said, not so many years ago.
NOW we all have to pretend not to ‘see’ where the real problems are, and why people use ‘hate’ crimes, perhaps it is for valid reasons in many many cases.
Banning saying something dosen’t earase the truth of the situation.
All for coming down on people who lie, but often they are saying it ‘as it is’.
Remember, ‘just beause what I say offends you, doesn’t mean that it is necessairly not true’.
You can keep on making excuses for what you call ‘saying it as it is’, but tell me this: when you say it as you see it, does it improve the situation or inflame it? Does the person on the receiving end of your perceptions and insights also feel helped and uplifted?
We have, for years now, seen Politicians and other statespersons ‘skirt’ around the truth, never giving clear concise answers, telling people what that person ‘wants’ to hear, rather than the truth.
They do such as they, if they were fully honest, would likely not get elected.
Yet the public and most others up until recently, said what they beleived to be right and true. People then KNEW where they stood, and if disagreeing could equally say so, and have a right to put their point of view forward.
That is how it should be, otherwise people in power who ‘dictate’ what we are allowed to say, then have their agendas biasly pushed onto the masses. Hitler should have been the last to have that priviledge.
I experience hate crime when I’m told I have White privilege from the far-left media and far-left supporters, just because I was born White through no fault of my own..
Hate crime is a two way street, so stop making people ashamed of being who they are…
A Nice easy billet, a bit like mowing the CO’s lawn.
Looks like we have a number of prospective offenders in the comments!
you being up there at the top fanny craddock
What about acting against hate in general. The other day say this psycho going off on one at this chap walking his dog because the psycho felt he had go in his way. Shouting about how he was going to “put him down”. It was mental. The psycho walked off as too many people watching. I was about to leave in my car for a meeting, I hung about it case the psycho kicked off. Never seen anything like it before.