Police<\/a> Chiefs\u2019 Council (NPCC) and the College of Policing will publish their review next month, which will then be given to the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood.<\/p>\nThe review was announced after the Metropolitan police said in October that they would no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents.<\/p>\n
It also followed the Father Ted creator Graham Linehan discovering he would face no further action over social media posts he had made about transgender issues, after he was arrested at Heathrow airport in September. Linehan was arrested over a potential criminal offence but the case was later downgraded to an investigation into a non-crime hate incident, it is understood.<\/p>\n
Nick Herbert, the chair of the College of Policing, told BBC Radio 4\u2019s Today programme: \u201cThe home secretary has already indicated that she wants to ensure that the police are focused on the right things and not on the trivial.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was quite clear that the whole regime needed looking at, that there was a perception that the police were being drawn into matters that they shouldn\u2019t have been. I don\u2019t think the police service wanted to be drawn into them. They don\u2019t want to be policing tweets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rather than logging hate incidents on a crime database, the plan would be to treat them as intelligence reports, with officers given a \u201ccommonsense\u201d checklist, it was reported.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Andy Cooke, who leads HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, said: \u201cI\u2019m a firm believer that non-crime hate incidents are no longer required and that intelligence can be gathered in a different way, which would cause less concern to the public and would make recording of such issues much easier for policing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chief constable Rachel Swann, the vice-chair of the NPCC, said: \u201cWe are continuing to work with the College of Policing on finalising our review of non-crime hate incidents before its submission to ministers early in the new year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not for policing to referee online debates on cultural issues. Protecting free speech and ensuring officers focus on real-world threat and risk is an important part of our considerations.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut equally important is ensuring policing can continue to keep our communities safe, such as by spotting risks to vulnerable people, monitoring community tensions or identifying potential precursors to violence and other criminal behaviour.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur review will make recommendations for how policing can best do this in the future and it will be for ministers to decide on future policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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