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Request
Q1. The total number of antisemitic crimes recorded in each month of 2021, 2022 and 2023;
Q2. The total number of antisemitic violent crimes recorded, in each month of 2021, 2022 and 2023, which fell into the Home Office categories of “homicide”, “violence with injury” and “racially or religiously aggravated assault without injury”;
Q3. The total number of antisemitic crimes, in each month of 2021,2022 and 2023, that resulted in charges being brought; and
Q4. The total number of antisemitic non-criminal incidents recorded in each month of 2021, 2022 and 2023.
If North Yorkshire Police does not flag antisemitic crimes separately, please search for crimes and non-criminal incidents in your CRIS using the following whole keywords (i.e. not parts of words, but whole words, so that when you search for “Jew”, entries containing “jewellery” are not returned).
Since use of all the keywords might prevent you from answering this FOI request due to excessive cost, please only use the keywords (starting at the top) that can be used without incurring excessive cost.
The keywords are:
Jew/Jews/Jewish/Judaism
Semite/Semitic/Semitism
Antisemite/Antisemitic/Antisemitism
Yid/Yids/Yiddo/Yiddish
When responding, please use the following table format, with the following headings:
Month
Number of antisemitic crimes recorded
Number of antisemitic crimes involving allegations of violence* Number of antisemitic crimes resulting in charges being brought Number of antisemitic incidents reported
*For the purpose of this request, antisemitic crimes involving allegations of violence are those antisemitic crimes which fell into the Home Office categories of “homicide”, “violence with injury” and “racially or religiously aggravated assault without injury”.
Response
Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information
To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by North Yorkshire Police.
Decision
I have today decided to disclose the located information to you.
Q1. Please see the table below which details the total number of antisemitic crimes recorded by North Yorkshire Police from 01 January 2021 to 31 December 2023, broken down by month.
Month |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
Total |
January |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
February |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
March |
0 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
April |
3 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
May |
0 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
June |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
July |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
August |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
September |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
October |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
November |
4 |
1 |
2 |
7 |
December |
0 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
Total |
12 |
7 |
21 |
40 |
Q2. The total number of antisemitic crimes recorded under the following crime types “homicide”, “violence with injury” and “racially or religiously aggravated assault without injury”recorded by North Yorkshire Police from 01 January 2021 to 31 December 2023 is 1. I am exempting any further information pursuant to Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act. Please see the exemption explanation below.
Q3. Of the above antisemitic crimes recorded by North Yorkshire Police 0 ended in a charge outcome.
Q4. Please see the table below which details the total number of antisemitic non-crime hate incidents recorded by North Yorkshire Police from 01 January 2021 to 31 December 2023, broken down by month and year.
Month |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
Total |
January |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
February |
2 |
3 |
1 |
6 |
March |
3 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
May |
1 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
June |
2 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
July |
0 |
3 |
3 |
6 |
August |
3 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
September |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
October |
2 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
November |
2 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
December |
1 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
Total |
18 |
15 |
10 |
43 |
Exemption Explanation
Section 40 – Personal Information
I am exempting any further information or break down of this incident pursuant to Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act).
Where an individual can be identified by such data, releasing it would clearly breach the first data protection principle of being ‘fair’ to the data subject.
Section 17 of the Act requires North Yorkshire Police, when refusing to provide such information (because the information is exempt) to provide you the applicant with a notice which: (a) states that fact, (b) specifies the exemption in question and (c) states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies.
Section 40(2) is an absolute class based exemption, which does not require a public interest test, but requires the balancing of the legitimate interests of the public against the interests of the individual under the first Data Protection Principle; in that processing of personal data must be lawful and fair (DPA 2018 35(1), EUGDPR Article 5(1)).
This exemption applies because the right given under the FOI Act to request official information held by public authorities does not apply to the personal data of third parties where disclosure of that information would not be fair to the individual, and where there is no legitimate public interest in disclosure.
In all the circumstances of the case it has been determined that the duty to the individual under the Data Protection Act 2018 & EU General Data Protection Regulations, and the public interest in maintaining the exemption from disclosure of personal information held by the force in such instances, outweighs the public interest in disclosure. In this instance, personal information can only be disclosed to the individual concerned.
Releasing personal details to a person other than the data subject would not only breach the data subject’s Data Protection rights it may also breach the obligations placed on an authority under the European Convention on Human Rights.
Pursuant to Section 17(1) of the Act this letter acts as a refusal notice under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in relation to your request.
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.