Ex-police officer Harry Miller wins legal challenge after alleged 'transphobic tweets'
An ex-police officer has won a legal challenge against a national policy for forces to record gender-critical views as non-crime "hate incidents".It was recorded on a national database as a non-crime 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", according to the College of Policing's guidance on hate crimes.Mr Miller posted a number of tweets between November 2018 and January 2019 about transgender issues as part of a debate
"There is nothing in the guidance about excluding irrational complaints, including those where there is no evidence of hostility and little, if anything, to address the chilling effect which this may have on the legitimate exercise of freedom of expression. However, an additional challenge to the College of Police's guidance was dismissed, with the High Court finding that it "serves legitimate purposes and is not disproportionate".
However, Dame Victoria added: "In my opinion [the revisions] do not go very far or not nearly far enough to address the chilling effect of perception-based recording more generally."
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