FOI 0084-2024/25- Non-crime hate incidents

Request:

Q1. A statutory code of practice for the recording of 'non-crime hate incidents' became law in June 2023 under sections 60 and 61 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. Please give details of the training you provide to officers and staff to ensure that the recording and investigation of NCHIs only take place when the threshold set out in the code is met.

Q2. The statutory code of practice for the recording of 'non-crime hate incidents' requires that NCHI records holding personal data must use the terms 'subject' and 'complainant' (not 'suspect' and 'victim'). Have your incident and crime recording systems been updated to use the required wording in the context of NCHIs, and is the correct terminology in current use in your force?

Q3. Please specify the number of 'non-crime hate incidents' recorded by your force for the year prior to the introduction of the statutory code as well as the numbers from June 2023 (since the introduction of the code) to the present date.

Q4. Are you associated with Stonewall? If yes, please specify your membership or advisory level, e.g. Workplace Champions Scheme, and all annual costs related to such membership or provision of advice.

Q5. In the interests of viewpoint diversity and inclusion, what staff association or internal forum do you have in place which specifically supports and encourages officers and staff who hold legally protected 'gender-critical' views?

Response:

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Q1. Any training delivered would be as prescribed by the College of Policing – the content of which is their intellectual property. To obtain this information you would need to contact the college of policing.

Q2. North Yorkshire Police uses neutral non-crime terminology in force in relation to the recording of NCHI – ‘named’ for the subject and ‘reporting person’ for the ‘complainant’.  

Q3. Please see the table below showing the total number of non-crime hate incidents between 01 June 2022 to 31 May 2023 and 01 June 2023 to present, broken down by time period.

Time period	Count
pre-code of practice	150
post-code of practice	154
Total	304

Q4. No

Q5. North Yorkshire Police do not have a staff association or internal forum relating to gender-critical views.

Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.