Race hate crimes from April 2018 to March 2023

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.23.032346

I note you seek access to the following information:

1. How many race hate crimes were reported to your force?
a. How many charges were made by your force?
b. Breakdown of ethnic backgrounds of victims
2.
3. How many race hate crimes against children (u18s) were reported to your force?
a. Breakdown of the type of offence - e.g. physical, verbal, online etc
b. Breakdown of the ages of the victims
c. Breakdown of ethnic backgrounds of victims
d. How many charges were made by your force?
i. Breakdown of the ages of the people charged.

Points for clarification and accuracy:
• Children refers to those under the age of 18 - if the child is under the age of 1 please provide age in months
• This is a request about racially aggravated hate crimes only - please ensure religiously aggravated offences are filtered out
• Please ensure data is provided in format of financial years (e.g. 2018/19) and not individual years (e.g. 2018)

Decision

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

Please find below & attached information pursuant to your request above.

As a guide you can find the answers to your specific questions in the following tables:

Q1 – Table 1 (Totals)
Q1(a) – Table 1
Q1(b) – Table 2

Q3 (There was no Q2 listed) – Table 3
Q3(a) – Table 3/4
Q3(b) - Table 6
Q3(c) - Table 5
Q3(d) – Table 7
Q3(i) – Table 8