FOI Ukraine Hate Crimes (940-2023/24)

Request

For the period 24th February 2022 to 23th February 2023 and for the period 24th February 2023 to 19th December 2023;

Q1. The number of race hate crimes recorded where the victim’s nationality was Ukrainian
Q2. A brief description of each crime listed in your answer to question 1 (i.e. the details written in the MO field of the crime report)
Q3. The number of reported crimes which mentioned  "Ukraine" or "Ukrainian" in the MO field of the crime report
Q4. A brief summary of each reported crime listed in your answer to question 3 (i.e. the details written in the MO field of the crime report)

Then, for each calendar year 2020 and 2021, please could you tell me:

Q5. The number of race hate crimes recorded where the victim’s nationality was Ukrainian
Q6. A brief description of each crime listed in your answer to question 5 (i.e. the details written in the MO field of the crime report)
Q7.The number of reported crimes which mentioned  "Ukraine" or "Ukrainian" in the MO field of the crime report
8) A brief summary of each reported crime listed in your answer to question 7 (i.e. the details written in the MO field of the crime report)

Response

Extent of Searches to Locate Information

Following receipt of your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police to locate relevant information. 

Decision

I am not obliged to provide you with a response to your request pursuant to Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act). Please note that when one part of your request falls under Section 12, we are not obliged to review the rest of the questions and the whole request is therefore exempt.

Section 12(1) applies to your request as the cost of complying with your request is above the amount to which we are legally required to respond i.e. the cost of identifying and retrieving any relevant information exceeds the ‘appropriate level’ as stated in the Freedom of Information (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.

Due to the nature of our recording systems the information requested, if held, is not in an easily retrievable format. The nationality of a person is not mandatorily recorded. To determine if any reports are relevant to your request, we would need to manually review more than 1500 reports. This would exceed the time limit allowed under the Act. 

Pursuant to Section 17(5) of the Freedom of Information Act this letter acts as a Refusal Notice.

Pursuant to Section 16 of the Act I am required to offer you advice and assistance with regarding to refining your request to within the ‘appropriate limit’ (time/cost limit). However, due to the information provided above I am unable to suggest how you may refine your request and still receive the information within the cost threshold.  If you wish to discuss this please do not hesitate to contact me.

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.