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Tuesday, 23 December 2025

Good grief



Non-crime hate incidents to be scrapped in favour of common sense

Police chiefs will reportedly seek to scrap non-crime hate incidents in plans they will present to the Home Secretary next month.

NCHIs are no longer “fit for purpose”, police leaders have decided, after warnings that recording them undermines freedom of speech and diverts officers away from fighting crime.

Where does the common sense come from?   

From a checklist is the reply, but we knew that before we asked.

Instead, officers would be issued with a “common sense” checklist to go through before they take any action, to prevent police from intervening in online spats or offensive comments.

Good grief.

1 comment:

dearieme said...

Will they promise to investigate non-hate crime incidents? Thought not.