A top cop welcomes changes to how 'non-crime hate incidents' are reported - insisting police have wasted their time
Ch Con Watson said some non-crime hate incident reporting has been a waste of time.The way police have gone about recording non-crime hate incidents has been a "waste of time", the chief of one of Britain's biggest forces has declared.
He welcomed "sensible" changes to guidance around non-crime hate incidents, which see police keep a record of problems they believe have been motivated by prejudice over race, religion, disability, sexuality or gender identity but a crime has not been committed. "We've got ourselves involved in stuff which is just not a policing matter, we've wasted our time as a result and we've caused people to question whether, frankly, we know what we're doing."New guidance from the College of Policing says non-crime hate incidents should not be recorded in cases where they are trivial, irrational or if it cannot be concluded that what happened was motivated by hostility.
He referred to Fiona Pilkington, who killed herself and her disabled daughter in 2007 after enduring years of bullying.
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