Hate Crime - Chinese, Japanese or South East Asian Ethnicity 2018-2020
Keywords
Hate, Crime, Racially, Religiously, Aggravated, Motivated, IC5, Chinese, Japanese, South East Asian, Offences, Records, Calendar, Year, Monthly, Breakdown, Non-Crimes, Home, Office, Classification, NC/10, Officer, Defined, Ethnicity, Victim.
Publication Number
PUB 1231
FOI Reference Number
15753
Request Title
Hate Crime - Chinese, Japanese or South East Asian Ethnicity
Date Range
2018-2020
Information Requested
Number of racially or religiously aggravated hate crime recorded against individuals focussing upon those within the Police listed ethnic category "IC5" between the year starting January 2020 until the year ending December 2020.
Additionally, the same information for the year starting January 2019 until the year ending 2019 and the year starting January 2018 until the year ending 2018.
Furthermore, provide a month-by-month breakdown of these offences within the years stated above.
Disclosure with Exemptions
Full Disclosure
Information Correct as at
09 August 2021
Date of Disclosure
12 August 2021
Related Documents/Links
N/A
FOI 15753 Response
Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request, Essex Police can confirm in respect of Section 1(1)(b) the following data:
Caveats:
The data is correct as at 09 August 2021.
Only Hate Crimes have been included, Hate Non-Crimes (Incidents) have been omitted.
The Home Office Classification of ‘NC/10’ was used to bring back all relevant Hate Crime Offences and Records.
Three sets of dates:
01 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
01 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
01 January 2020 to 31 December 2020.
A total of 116 Racially or Religiously Aggravated Hate Crimes were recorded against individuals from 01 January 2018 to 31 December 2020, where the Officer Defined Ethnicity of the victim was IC5 (Chinese, Japanese, or other Southeast Asian). The yearly breakdown of these crimes is presented in the below table:
Hate Crimes where Officer Defined Ethnicity of the Victim is IC5 - 2018 to 2020
|
Created Year |
Ethnic Appearance |
Offence Investigation Type |
Number of hate crimes |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2018 |
Chinese, Japanese or South East Asian |
CRIME |
33 |
|
2019 |
Chinese, Japanese or South East Asian |
CRIME |
34 |
|
2020 |
Chinese, Japanese or South East Asian |
CRIME |
49 |
|
Total |
116 |
A month-by-month breakdown of these offences from 01 January 2018 to 31 December 2020 is shown in the table below:
Hate Crimes where Officer Defined Ethnicity of the Victim is IC5 - Monthly Breakdown - 2018 to 2020
|
Month |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
January |
1 |
1 |
4 |
|
February |
2 |
10 |
|
|
March |
8 |
4 |
|
|
April |
1 |
2 |
3 |
|
May |
1 |
2 |
2 |
|
June |
4 |
1 |
9 |
|
July |
3 |
4 |
|
|
August |
8 |
5 |
1 |
|
September |
5 |
3 |
|
|
October |
2 |
4 |
4 |
|
November |
7 |
3 |
6 |
|
December |
2 |
2 |
2 |
|
Yearly Total |
33 |
34 |
49 |
|
Total |
116 |
||
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