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UK Police to Scrap Non-Crime Hate Incident System
Police leaders in the UK plan to replace non-crime hate incident records with a system focusing on serious cases, after 133,000 incidents were recorded since 2014.
- Next month, the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs' Council will publish plans to scrap non-crime hate incidents, expected to be backed by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.
- Earlier this year, the arrest of Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan intensified scrutiny after the Metropolitan Police took no further action and decided to stop investigating non-crime hate incidents.
- Police leaders propose a `common sense` replacement that records only serious incidents as anti-social behaviour while treating routine reports as intelligence and using a `common sense` checklist before action.
- The change would require retraining of police call handlers and officers in England and Wales and excluding records from crime databases means they will no longer appear in job-application background checks.
- Senior police figures including Sir Mark Rowley, Chief Constable Gavin Stephens, and Sir Andy Marsh have urged legal changes, submitting a review to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood as NCHIs are no longer fit for purpose.
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