Hate Crime - Sexual Orientation or Transgender Identity - Monthly 2019 to 2021

Keywords

Hate, Crime, Sexuality, Orientation, Transgender, Identity, Offences, Motivating, Figures, Totals, Records, Violence, Person, Online.

Publication Number

PUB 1297

FOI Reference Number

16131

Request Title

Hate Crime - Sexual Orientation or Transgender Identity

Date Range

Monthly 2019 to 2021

Information Requested

I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

My request concerns hate crime offences where the motivating factor was sexual orientation or transgender identity.

Could you supply the following figures for each calendar month in 2019, 2020 and 2021, up to August 31 2021 (or the most recent available month):

(1) The total number of hate crime offences recorded by your force in each month where the motivating factor was sexual orientation, or transgender identity. Please include separate totals.

(2) Of the totals for (1), how many were offences classed as violence against the person.

(3) Of the totals for (1), how many were classed as online offences.

Disclosure with Exemptions

Full disclosure

Information Correct as at

13 October 2021

Date of Disclosure

03 November 2021

Related Documents/Links

N/A

FOI 16131 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 13 October 2021.

The Home Office Classification of ‘NC/10’ was used to bring back all the relevant Hate Crime Offences and Records.

Two Hate Types were applied as filters to retrieve the relevant records:  1) Hate – Sexual Orientation and 2) Hate – Transgender Identity.

The Offence Group was used as a filter to gather all the relevant Violence Against the Person and Online Offences Records.

The results include both Crime and Non-Crime Hate Incidents.

Dates:  01 January 2019 to 31 August 2021

(1)  The total number of Hate Crime Offences recorded by your force in each month where the motivating factor was Sexual Orientation, or Transgender Identity.  Please include separate totals.

The Hate Crime Offences recorded by Essex Police force in each month, where the motivating factor was Sexual Orientation, from 01 January 2019 to 31 August 2021, are shown in the below table:

Month	2019	2020	2021
January	31	49	36
February	27	33	49
March	25	40	42
April	29	28	67
May	35	30	46
June	45	31	68
July	49	43	82
August	44	58	56
September	51	44
October	38	46
November	26	54
December	48	42
Total	448	498	446

The Hate Crime Offences recorded by Essex Police force in each month, where the motivating factor was Transgender Identity, from 01 January 2019 to 31 August 2021, are shown in the below table:

Month	2019	2020	2021
January	6	8	1
February	19	10	10
March	7	5	14
April	17	7	10
May	1	3	7
June	6	4	18
July	9	9	7
August	8	8	18
September	6	8
October	8	14
November	9	7
December	6	7
Total	102	90	85

(2)  Of the totals for (1), how many were offences classed as Violence Against the Person.

Of the totals where the motivating factor was Sexual Orientation recorded by Essex Police force, the numbers of these offences classified as Violence Against the Person, in each month from 01 January 2019 to 31 August 2021, are presented in the below table:

Month	2019	2020	2021
January	19	27	20
February	11	13	28
March	9	15	25
April	10	9	37
May	17	15	26
June	21	20	30
July	27	18	48
August	20	25	29
September	27	20
October	22	30
November	11	33
December	23	24
Total	217	249	243

Of the totals where the motivating factor was Transgender Identity recorded by Essex Police force, the numbers of these offences classified as Violence Against the Person, in each month from 01 January 2019 to 31 August 2021, are presented in the below table:

Month	2019	2020	2021
January	2	4	1
February	12	7	8
March	3	3	10
April	10	3	6
May	1		3
June	1	3	10
July	4	4	4
August	5	3	5
September	3	5
October	5	6
November	7	3
December	3	4
Total	56	45	47

(3)  Of the totals for (1), how many were classed as Online Offences.

Of the totals where the motivating factor was Sexual Orientation recorded by Essex Police force, the numbers of these offences classified as Online Offences, in each month from 01 January 2019 to 31 August 2021, are presented in the below table:

Month	2019	2020	2021
January			3
February	3	2	10
March	3	5	12
April	2		7
May	2	2	5
June	3	5	3
July	3	1	12
August	2	1	4
September	4	1
October	3	6
November	3	6
December	6	6
Total	34	35	56

Of the totals where the motivating factor was Transgender Identity recorded by Essex Police force, the numbers of these offences classified as Online Offences, in each month from 01 January 2019 to 31 August 2021, are presented in the below table:

Month	2019	2020	2021
January		1	1
February	3
March	1
April	1	1
May
June			4
July		3
August	1	2
September	1	1
October
November
December
Total	7	8	5

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