Tories call for ban on recording ‘non-crime hate incidents’

Kemi Badenoch said her party would put forward an amendment to the Government’s Crime and Policing Bill banning the practice, except where a senior officer thought the information would assist in the detection or prevention of a future crime.

NCHIs are record incidents that do not count as crimes but are perceived to be motivated by hatred towards certain characteristics such as race or gender.

According to the Home Office, they allow forces to monitor incidents that “could escalate into more serious harm or indicate heightened community tensions”, and were introduced following recommendations by the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry in 1999.

Tuesday marks 33 years since Stephen Lawrence was murdered in a racially motivated attack in south-east London.

But Mrs Badenoch said NCHIs had “wasted police time chasing ideology and grievance instead of justice” and suggested officers were “trawling social media for things someone might find offensive” rather than “fi...
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