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Hate crimes (FOI)

Hate crimes (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by States of Jersey and published on 03 March 2017.

​Request

A

Please could you give me the number of hate crimes that were racially motivated for the month of January, the year of 2016 and for each year over the past ten years?

B

Please could you tell me the total number of hate crimes reported in the past month and year 2016 and previous year of 2015 and then the % of those that were racially motivated?

Response

A

A ‘hate’ crime is recorded when a crime (for example an assault or using abusive language or behaviour) is motivated by one of the below factors.

  • sexuality
  • faith
  • transgender
  • race
  • disability
  • age (since May 2016 when the law changed)

The number of hate crimes recorded since 2008, where the aggravating factor was race is listed in the table below.

​Racial incidents ​2008 to January 2017
​2008 ​14
​2009​32
​2010​29
​2011​25
​2012​15
​2013​12
​2014​15
​2015​18
​2016​22
​2017​3
​Total ​185

 

B

The total number of hate crimes recorded and percentage that were racially motivated is shown below.

All hate crime records 2015 to January 2017
​Year​Total​% Racial Incidents
​2015​22​82
​2016​23​95
​2017​3100​

 

The above figures are in line with England & Wales where racial hatred accounts for 82% of hate crimes recorded by the police, the largest proportion of the six strands.

While all hate crimes, whatever the motivation, are equally unacceptable as part of our Equality & Diversity Action plan for 2017, the States of Jersey Police will work with minority communities in Jersey through a new Community Consultative Group, to ensure in addition to enhanced community engagement, those communities have their voices heard by the police in delivering hate crime responses.

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