Hate Crime – an operational response

Chief Superintendent Karl Smethem

Numbers

• 500 Hate Crime Offences recorded 2012• 445 Hate Crime Offences recorded 2015• 509 Hate Crime Offences recorded 2014

• Disability numbers

2014

Less than 2000 Disability hate crime offences recorded

British Crime Survey tells us that there were more than 60000 offences committed

• Investigate as effectively as possible Hate Incidents and Crimes

What do we need

• We need to know what is happening• We need to care• We need to be good at what we do• We need to be held to account

What's happening?

• Through effective partnership working

• Through education of our own staff

Need to care

• Culture

• Changing mind set

• Preaching to the choir

Good at what we do

• Approved Professional Practice

• Internal Training

• Vulnerability Units

• Gold Silver Bronze

• Daily Tasking

Holding us to account

• Partnership

• Previously• Now• Future

Future

• Remains a priority

• We build confidence

• We make a difference