Disability Hate Crime Statistics 2019-2021
Keywords
Disability, Hate, Crimes, Statistics, Online Hate, Violence against the person, Hate Disability, Disability hate, Financial, Outcome, Violence, Online, Anti-Social, Behaviour, ASB, NC10.
Publication Number
PUB 1323
FOI Reference Number
15653
Request Title
Disability Hate Crime Statistics 2019-2021
Date Range
2019-2020
Information Requested
1. How many disability hate crimes have been recorded by your police force for the last two financial years –2019/20 and 2020/21?
2. How many disability hate crimes were committed by repeat offenders (of a previous disability hate crime) in the last two financial years- 2019/20 and 2020/21?
3. How many disability hate crimes during each financial year (2019/20 and 2020/21) concerned acts of violence against a person?
4. How many incidents of disability hate crime were recorded as taking place online in each financial year (2019/20 and 2020/21)?
5. How many of the recorded disability hate crimes in each financial year (2019/20 and 2020/21) resulted in a CPS referral?
6. How many of the recorded online disability hate crimes in each financial year (2019/20 and 2020/21) resulted in a CPS referral?
Disclosure with Exemptions
Full Refusal with Section 12 and Section 17 Exemptions
Information Correct as at
18 August 2021
Date of Disclosure
23 August 2021
Related Documents/Links
N/A
FOI 15653 Response
Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request, however, the obligation of Section 1(1)(b) cannot be met as Essex Police does not hold all the information requested in a format that allows it to be retrieved within the time and cost limits of FOI.
When responding to a request for information under the terms of the FOIA, a public authority is not obliged to provide information if the authority estimates that the cost of the retrieval of the information requested would be in excess of £450 (equivalent to 18 hours work). The costs criteria relates to a request in its entirety, which means that if we cannot retrieve all of the information requested within the costs limit, we are not obliged to retrieve any of the information requested.
Section 12(1) of the FOIA states that a public authority is not obliged to:
“…comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.”
The following explanation outlines the difficulty Essex Police has in answering your request:
In respect of question 2, Essex Police are unable to search in a retrievable format for repeat offenders, it would mean a manual review of all disability hate crime records to seek out and match repeat offenders.
Questions 5 & 6 will involve examination of investigation files, and the cross referral with the Police National Computer to establish the details requested. This process would exceed the time and costs limits and in addition qualify as “creation of data” as the results cannot be processed by means of sorting or filtering data sources or running a database query tool, there is no requirement under the act for creation of data to be carried out to answer questions within a FOI request. The crime recording system can only easily extract outcomes (further details can be found within our publication article Essex Police crime statistics outcomes criminal justice.
Consequently and to this extent, Essex Police are exempt from the duty to provide information you have requested under the provisions of Section 12(1) of the FOIA. Therefore, and in accordance with Section 17(1) of the FOIA, this communication must act as a refusal notice to provide all of the information that could be interpreted as being captured by this part of your request.
Having said that and in an effort to assist, although excess cost removes the force’s obligations under the FOIA, Essex Police can confirm the following:
Caveat: The data is correct as at 18/08/2021
The crime Anti-Social Behaviour ASB keyword was used to filter for online crimes only
The hate incident type dimension was selected to have the ‘hate incident – disability’ option
Only Hate crimes have been included, hate non-crimes (incidents) are not included
The Home Office Classification of ‘NC/10’ was used to identify all relevant hate crime offences and records
Set of dates:
2019/20: 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2020
2020/21: 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021
1. How many disability hate crimes have been recorded by your police force for the last two financial years –2019/20 and 2020/21?
A total of 902 disability hate crimes have been recorded by Essex Police for the last two financial years 2019/20 and 2020/21.
3. How many disability hate crimes during each financial year (2019/20 and 2020/21) concerned acts of violence against a person?
A total of 520 disability hate crimes involving acts of violence against a person have been recorded by Essex Police for the last two financial years 2019/20 and 2020/21.
4. How many incidents of disability hate crime were recorded as taking place online in each financial year (2019/20 and 2020/21)?
A total of 81 online disability hate crimes were recorded by Essex Police for the last two financial years 2019/20 and 2020/21.
The breakdown of the above figures by financial year are shown below:
Disability Hate crimes recorded by Essex Police - Financial Years 2019/20 and 2020/21
|
Financial Year |
Disability hate crimes |
Disability hate crimes involving acts of violence against a person |
Online disability hate crimes |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2019/20 |
423 |
231 |
42 |
|
2020/21 |
479 |
289 |
39 |
|
Total |
902 |
520 |
81 |
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Every effort is made to ensure that the data provided by Essex Police is accurate and complete. However, Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the purposes of providing data to answer specific FOI enquiries. Please note although data can be extracted from a number of sources via database queries, the results may be subject to inaccuracies. Care should be taken to understand our return when considering the interpretation or further use of the data.
The Force Information Management Board chaired by the Deputy Chief Constable has oversight of the Force wide programme of work to improve the quality of Force data. This work has identified data quality leads in all key areas of the business including the Crime and Public Protection Command. Liaison between the Force Data Quality Team and the Crime and Public Protection Command lead for data quality will identify and resolve issues through a variety of mechanisms to ensure regular and appropriate supervisory oversight.
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