- Reference Number: 1940
- Date released: 26 June 2009
Request
How many homophobic incidents and crimes were recorded by your
police force in each of the last five years? How many and what
proportion of these incidents were violent?
Response
In accordance with section 1 (1) (b) of the Act our response is
provided below;
Homophobic Crimes
| |
Incidents |
Crimes |
Violent |
% Violent |
| 2004/05 |
37 |
3 |
7 |
18.9% |
| 2005/06 |
13 |
6 |
0 |
0.0% |
| 2006/07 |
36 |
3 |
2 |
5.6% |
| 2007/08 |
31 |
17 |
2 |
6.5% |
| 2008/09 |
25 |
11 |
1 |
4.0% |
| Total |
142 |
40 |
12 |
8.5% |
Caveat
The total number of Homophobic Incidents are the number of
incidents recorded on Command and Control that come under the Hate
Crime qualifier. The number of Crimes are the number of incidents
that have a crime number associated to them and the number of
Violent incidents is the number of incidents that are given the
Incident Type as violent as a qualifier on the command and control
system.
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