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Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) Hate Crime Reduction Strategy

Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) Hate Crime Reduction Strategy. Mayor pledged to deliver a strategy to tackle hate crime in London. Hate Crime - What is it?.

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Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) Hate Crime Reduction Strategy

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  1. Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) Hate Crime Reduction Strategy • Mayor pledged to deliver a strategy to tackle hate crime in London

  2. Hate Crime - What is it? • Brief definition - hate crime includes: verbal abuse, physical assault, domestic abuse, harassment and damage to property.

  3. Reporting of Hate Crime • Disability hate crime is under reported: • Only 121 disability hate crimes were recorded in London in a ‘rolling’ year to May 2014  • Compares to 9918 for racist and religious hate crime

  4. Convictions • Most offenders convicted in London for hate crime offences are given a fine or community sentence. 

  5. MOPAC’s 3 Key objectives • Work with communities and partners to increase awareness and to boost confidence to report hate crime • Work with partners to protect communities that are vulnerable to hate crime and reduce repeat victimisation • Work with criminal justice partners to ensure swift and sure justice for hate crime victims

  6. Increasing awareness and confidence to report hate crime Strategies include: • Working with partners to provide third party reporting services  • No measures to improve attitude of police 

  7. Protect communities that are vulnerable to hate crime and reduce repeat victimisation • Strategies include: • Innovative ways to reduce repeat victimisation -risk assessment conferences  • No proactive measure by police reduce repeat victimisation 

  8. Ensure swift and sure justice for hate crime victims • Work to improve the victim journey  Possibly: • develop of Police Officers and prosecutors with specialist skills in dealing with hate crime Funding available? • Introduce hate crime advocates to reduce acquittals Funding available?

  9. Consultation • Send comments to Henrietta.doyle@inclusionlondon.co.uk • Inclusion London’s information paper available at: • Or respond by 5 September. • Information is at https://www.london.gov.uk/priorities/policing-crime/consultations/hate-crime-reduction-strategy

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