FOI 000800 Race Hate Crimes (2017-2022)

Request Number: 000800/22
Date of Decision: 04 August 2022
Subject Area: Statistics
Decision: Disclosed

Request

1.         The total number of race hate crime offences against children (under 18s) recorded in the last 5 years (numbers preferably broken down by financial years e.g. 2020/21)

2.         The type of race hate crime offences these were, e.g. physical abuse, verbal abuse, online abuse etc

3.         A breakdown of the ages of the victims

4.         How many of these offences ended in prosecution?

 

Reply

Year	Sum
2017/2018	40
2018/2019	53
2019/2020	57
2020/2021	70
2021/2022	91
Sum	311

2-3.     Please see the above table.

Please note: the figures in the tables between Offences and Victim Ages may differ due to multiple victims per occurrence, repeat victims (repeat victims when aging up), poor crime recording of ages etc.

4.         No information held – please contact the Courts for conviction data

 

Please also be aware that Police forces in the United Kingdom are routinely required to provide crime statistics to government bodies and the recording criteria is set nationally. However, the systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the crime data. It should be noted that for these reasons this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other response you may receive.

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