Priti Patel has asked the College of Policing to look into procedures regarding 'non-crime hate incidents', The Sunday Telegraph reported. Non-crime hate incidents involve reports of 'hostility towards religion, race or transgender identity' that are not classed as a crime. But they say reported incidents should be to establish if an incident is a hate crime or a non-crime hate incident. Paul Gianassi, the hate crime adviser for the National Police Chiefs' Council, also argued that non-crime hate incidents may be the starting point in an escalating process of 'dehumanisation and ultimately murder'. Non-crime hate incident reports were introduced in 2014 following recommendations by the independent Macpherson Inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence.

Source: Daily Mail April 25, 2021 08:43 UTC