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.
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.
4 comments:
Will they promise to investigate non-hate crime incidents? Thought not.
dearieme - like burglary, fraud and racketeering? Seems unlikely.
I'm not holding my breath. Didn't Suella Braverman (or somebody) try to get them to stop this before, and didn't they just ignore her?
Talk is cheap.
Peter - ministers do seem to be ignored if they go against civil service policy. The Treasury probably doesn't pay much attention to Rachel Reeves either.
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