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Hate crime complaints to Scottish police set to outnumber total for all other offences
Front-line officers warn that they cannot cope with surge after 8,000 reports in first week after new law
www.telegraph.co.uk
Hate crime reports in Scotland are on course to outnumber all other offences put together, figures show, as front-line officers warned they “can’t cope” with the surge.
Around 8,000 hate crime reports have been made in the first week of the new Scottish legislation coming into force, which, if replicated through the year, would surpass the entire annual total of 416,000 crimes reported to police, according to an analysis of official data by The Telegraph.
This would mean that hate crime reports would overtake overall crime within 36 weeks, or at least by the autumn, and dwarf the annual 58,000 reported assaults, the most common offence in Scotland, by a factor of 10.
David Threadgold, chairman of the Scottish Police Federation, which represents front-line officers, told the BBC: “Police Scotland have gone public and said that on every occasion, reports of hate crime will be investigated.
“That creates a situation where we simply cannot cope at the moment. Officers have been brought back in to do overtime shifts and the management of that is simply unsustainable.”
Which cases will result in prosecutions?
A person will face prosecution if it is determined they have behaved or communicated in a manner that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive and if they intended to stir up hatred against a group of people with the protected characteristics identified in the Bill.
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