Hate crimes where the victim was a police officer/staff from 2019/20 to 2021/22

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.22.026469

I note you seek access to the following information:

Please may I request how many hate crime charges brought in your force area in 2019/20 and 2020/21 involved a victim who was a police officer or police employee.

Please may I also request the percentage of hate crime charges brought in your force area in 2019/20 and 2020/21 that involved a victim who was a police officer or a police employee.

Finally, can I request how many of these hate crime charges with a police victim were for public order offences?

Decision

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

Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

Please note that there could be more than one victim per record as this is a count of offences not victims. In addition to this as a victim’s occupation is not a mandatory field this could be an under-representation but without assessing all of the hate crime records (over 20,000 a year) then we wouldn’t be able to say for definite, and it would be refused as cost.