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Disability hate crimes recorded by the MPS in 2020/21 and 2021/22

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.22.024628

I note you seek access to the following information:

1. How many disability hate crimes have been recorded by your police force for the last two financial years – 2020/21 and 2021/22?
2. How many disability hate crimes were committed by repeat offenders (of a previous disability hate crime) in the last two financial years- 2020/21 and 2021/22?
3. How many disability hate crimes during each financial year (2020/21 and 2021/22) concerned acts of violence against a person?
4. How many incidents of disability hate crime were recorded as taking place online in each financial year (2020/21 and 2021/22)?
5. How many of the recorded disability hate crimes in each financial year (2020/21 and 2021/22) resulted in a CPS referral?
6. How many of the recorded online disability hate crimes in each financial year (2020/21 and 2021/22) resulted in a CPS referral?

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I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.

Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

Please note:
With the rise in the use of the internet and particularly social media we have seen a rise in online hate crime and this is increasingly something the Met is being called to tackle.

The responsibilities of the Met when responding to online hate are the same as those for any other hate crime/incident. Online hate can cause significant distress and increase community tensions and should be investigated and dealt with just as seriously as any other hate crime or incident. All incidents of online hate must be recorded on a crime report, regardless of whether a crime has been committed or not. If discrimination is perceived by anyone, including a police officer, an appropriate hate crime flag is encouraged to be applied to the report as a branch flag. Training is provided regularly to officers, which includes the importance of recognising and flagging hate crimes when reports are made.

Furthermore, flags are used to identify other aspects of a report, such as an 'online' flag that is not mandatory to add to a report. To determine if a crime has occurred online, analytical data is obtained primarily using flags such as these, and therefore, where a flag is omitted from a report, this would not be included in the statistics obtained. Therefore, the statistics are not always accurate and it must be caveated that online hate crime cannot be accurately measured with the current Crime Reporting Intelligence System. In November 2022, the MPS is moving to CONNECT which should improve abilities to identify online crime.