Race Hate Crimes and Racially Aggravated Offences 2015 to 2021

Keywords

Financial, Years, Race, Hate, Crimes, Racially, Racial, Aggravated, Offences, Reported, Month, Ethnic, Background, Nationality, Asians.

Publication Number

PUB 1257

FOI Reference Number

15970

Request Title

Race Hate Crimes & Racially Aggravated Offences

Date Range

2015 to 2021

Information Requested

Initial Request

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act for data on race hate crimes, and racially aggravated offences reported to your force.

For the years 2015/16 (i.e to 31st March 2016) to 2020/2021 (i.e to March 31st 2021) please provide for your force.

1.  How many racially offences per month broken down by race or ethnic background/nationality have been reported?

2.  How many race hate crimes per month broken down by race or ethnic background/nationality have been reported?

3.  And please provide the same data for any months already recorded after March 31st, 2021.

4.  An annual summary of the number of racial offences against Asians reported- for every year you have on record. (i.e How many racial offences against Asians were reported in 2014/2015, 2013/2014…)

5.  An annual summary of the number of race hate crimes against Asians reported for every year you have on record.

Clarification Received.

I do apologise. In Q1. and Q.4, I mean ‘racially aggravated offences’

Disclosure with Exemptions

Full Disclosure

Information Correct as at

18 August 2021

Date of Disclosure

30 September 2021

Related Documents/Links

N/A

FOI 15970 Response

Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request.  Under Section 1(1)(b) the below and attached have been provided in relation to your request:

Caveats: 

The data is correct as at 18 August 2021.

It is not possible to obtain the specific numbers of racial offences as that would include an overlap with a lot of offence categories and this particular offence type is not available separately on our Crime Recording systems.

The Hate Incident Type Dimension was selected to have the ‘Hate Incident – Racial’ Option as a filter.

Only Hate Crimes have been included, Hate Non-Crimes (Incidents) have been omitted.

The old Crime Recording systems do not accurately record Racist Hate Incidents, therefore, these figures are not available for the time period before 01 April 2015.

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

Set of dates:

2015/16:  01April 2015 to 31 March 2016

2016/17:  01 April 2016 to 31 March 2017

2017/18:  01 April 2017 to 31 March 2018

2018/19:  01 April 2018 to 31 March 2019

2019/20:  01 April 2019 to 31 March 2020

2020/21:  01 April 2020 to 31 March 2021

2021/22:  01 April 2021 to 31 July 2021.

A total of 10,403 Race Hate Crimes have been reported from the Financial Year of 2015/16 to 2021/22 (July).  The breakdown of these crimes by year and month is shown in the table below:

Racial Hate Crimes by ethnic background of the victims - 2015/16 to 2021/22 (July)

Financial Year	April	May	June	July	August	September
2015/16	42	71	85	81	69	61
2016/17	87	109	101	139	155	136
2017/18	123	144	147	142	101	103
2018/19	134	131	146	182	150	130
2019/20	130	177	157	180	171	167
2020/21	120	176	247	247	191	202
2021/22 (to July)	202	249	263	271

 

Financial Year	October	November	December	January	February	March	Total
2015/16	84	70	76	78	53	86	856
2016/17	127	90	95	76	105	137	1357
2017/18	101	83	90	114	105	113	1366
2018/19	144	147	141	132	114	165	1716
2019/20	165	129	142	115	167	176	1876
2020/21	209	186	141	173	159	196	2247
2021/22 (to July)							985
						Overall Total	10,403

The breakdown of these crimes by the ethnicity of the victim is shown in the table below:

Racial Hate Crimes by Ethnic Background of the Victims - 2015/16 to 2021/22 (July)

Ethnicity of Victims	Number of Racial Hate Crimes
Arab	4
Gypsy or Irish Traveller	4
White Irish	87
White And Asian	93
Chinese	108
White And Black African	143
Not stated	191
Any Other Ethnic Group	218
Bangladeshi	223
White And Black Caribbean	255
Caribbean	301
Any Other Mixed Background	354
Pakistani	361
Indian	437
Any Other Black Background	550
Any Other Asian Background	611
Any Other White Background	1037
African	1139
White British	1789
Not Stated	2498
Total	10,403

A total of 1,837 Racist Hate Crimes were reported specifically against Asians from 2015/16 to 2021/22 (July).  The breakdown of these crimes is shown in the below table:

Reported Racist Hate Crimes against Asians - 2015/16 to 2021/22 (July)

	Financial Year
Ethnicity of Victims	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	2021/22 (to July)
Any Other Asian Background	59	115	82	86	105	98	66
Arab						1	3
Bangladeshi	21	41	26	39	38	34	24
Chinese	10	14	13	15	19	28	9
Indian	58	69	64	56	99	65	26
Pakistani	40	47	68	50	61	66	29
White And Asian	6	8	12	16	15	28	8
Total	194	294	265	262	337	320	165
Overall Total	1,837

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.