The number of hate crimes reported to the police force that covers Rutland has gone up.
In 2013 to 14 across all of Leicestershire Police's area the number of hate crimes was just under nine hundred.
A year later it had risen to just under one thousand.
But there's been a drop in the number of disability hate crimes.
Leicestershire Police are fully aware of what a hate crime is but my experience
of their action or lack of any shows they don't act appropriately.
One example of particularly vicious hate has come from former Oakham Mayor
Jim Harrison.
Even when he used the word hate in emails he sent to Councillors and Council
staff on top of other homophobic activities conducted by him and other
people connected to Local government, Leicestershire Police failed to act.
" 'Brookes' I hate the bastard with a vengeance",
Although they did act in the case of Philip Quinton who was a vulnerable young used
by Jim Harrison, Maureen Dodds and Wendy Miller. Philip was convicted before he
died of making a number of very serious threatening and homophobic calls to me.
Although I gave the police evidence proving the two former Mayors and their friend
had asked Philip to carry out his homophobic crimes they took no action against the
three. Although I told the police the crimes were hate crimes they did not record them.
On there website Leicestershire Police ask:
What are hate incidents and hate crimes?
Hate Incident
A hate incident is any non-crime incident which is perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person's actual, or perceived, disability, race, religion / faith, sexual orientation and or/transgender.
Hate Crime
A hate crime is any criminal offence which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person's actual, or perceived, disability, race, religion / faith, sexual orientation and or/transgender.
There are 5 nationally agreed monitored hate crime categories and these are:
Disability, Race, Religion / Faith, Sexual Orientation, Transgender Leicestershire Police also has ‘other' as a category which is used where the motivation is different from the five categories above. For example: a person is a Goth, a member of the Armed Forces or has been targeted because of their body size or appearance.
As well as hurting or injuring the victim and/or their property, hate incidents and hate crimes can also affect whole families, the wider community and society as a whole.
Although we are given figures today on the news about reported hate crimes, which seem quite
high for the small county of Rutland it would be interesting to know if the police handling
of these reports has actually improved. The police say disability hate crime reporting has
fallen. Could that just be because people are just fed up reporting to Leicestershire Police
and not receiving any response.
The biggest complaint I receive from residents is the 101 service. Residents walk into
the part time police desk at the offices of Rutland County Council and are told
to go away and ring 101. I told some people don't, I think in some cases it takes
a lot of courage for a person to walk into a police office to report anything and
to be told to go away and ring the profitable 101 service is unhelpful.
This instruction from Leicestershire police is nothing new it was something I complained
about when we had a police station.
In 2013 to 14 across all of Leicestershire Police's area the number of hate crimes was just under nine hundred.
A year later it had risen to just under one thousand.
But there's been a drop in the number of disability hate crimes.
Leicestershire Police are fully aware of what a hate crime is but my experience
of their action or lack of any shows they don't act appropriately.
One example of particularly vicious hate has come from former Oakham Mayor
Jim Harrison.
Even when he used the word hate in emails he sent to Councillors and Council
staff on top of other homophobic activities conducted by him and other
people connected to Local government, Leicestershire Police failed to act.
" 'Brookes' I hate the bastard with a vengeance",
Although they did act in the case of Philip Quinton who was a vulnerable young used
by Jim Harrison, Maureen Dodds and Wendy Miller. Philip was convicted before he
died of making a number of very serious threatening and homophobic calls to me.
Although I gave the police evidence proving the two former Mayors and their friend
had asked Philip to carry out his homophobic crimes they took no action against the
three. Although I told the police the crimes were hate crimes they did not record them.
On there website Leicestershire Police ask:
What are hate incidents and hate crimes?
Hate Incident
A hate incident is any non-crime incident which is perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person's actual, or perceived, disability, race, religion / faith, sexual orientation and or/transgender.
Hate Crime
A hate crime is any criminal offence which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person's actual, or perceived, disability, race, religion / faith, sexual orientation and or/transgender.
There are 5 nationally agreed monitored hate crime categories and these are:
Disability, Race, Religion / Faith, Sexual Orientation, Transgender Leicestershire Police also has ‘other' as a category which is used where the motivation is different from the five categories above. For example: a person is a Goth, a member of the Armed Forces or has been targeted because of their body size or appearance.
As well as hurting or injuring the victim and/or their property, hate incidents and hate crimes can also affect whole families, the wider community and society as a whole.
Although we are given figures today on the news about reported hate crimes, which seem quite
high for the small county of Rutland it would be interesting to know if the police handling
of these reports has actually improved. The police say disability hate crime reporting has
fallen. Could that just be because people are just fed up reporting to Leicestershire Police
and not receiving any response.
The biggest complaint I receive from residents is the 101 service. Residents walk into
the part time police desk at the offices of Rutland County Council and are told
to go away and ring 101. I told some people don't, I think in some cases it takes
a lot of courage for a person to walk into a police office to report anything and
to be told to go away and ring the profitable 101 service is unhelpful.
This instruction from Leicestershire police is nothing new it was something I complained
about when we had a police station.
