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Hate Incidents and/or Crime

What is a hate incident and/or crime?

These incidents and/ or crime may involve physical attacks, verbal abuse, harassment, damage to your property, bullying or graffiti.  
Hate incident and/or crime is any offence committed because a person is seen to be different because of their:

  • Disability

  • Gender or gender identity

  • Race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality or national origins

  • Religion

  • Sexual orientation

 

Hate incident and/or crime can take many forms including:

 

  • Verbal abuse or insults - offensive leaflets and posters, abusive gestures, dumping of rubbish outside homes or through letter boxes, and bullying at school or in the workplace

  • Threat of attack – including offensive letters, abusive or obscene telephone calls, groups hanging around to intimidate and unfounded, malicious complaints

  • Physical attacks – such as physical assault, damage to property, offensive graffiti, neighbour disputes and arson

 

Why should I report hate incidents and/or crime?

 

All hate incidents and crimes should be reported. By reporting these incidents and crimes, you will enable the police, local councils, housing associations etc. to build up patterns of behaviour locally, and highlight areas of concern within your community. This will help the partners understand the extent of hate incident and/ or crime in your local area so they can better respond to it.

 

But more importantly, you can get the support you may need and help to ensure that the behaviour stops.

 

Who can report an incident?

 

Anybody can complete the Hate Incident Monitoring Form.

 

If you have experienced or are aware of anyone who has experienced a hate incident then we want to know about it. An incident report can be completed anonymously you do not have to identify yourself, but if you want us to contact you it is essential that you leave a contact number or address.

 

If you represent a particular agency then this should be stated in section five of the form. You can report an incident even if you do not have all of the information requested on the form, as any information that you can provide may be valuable.

 

How can I report ? 

 

There are lots of ways you can report a hate incident and/ or crime, whether you have been a victim, a witness, or you are reporting on behalf of someone else:

 

  • By completing an on-line form or downloading a copy and sending a completed form to Leicester City Council, PO Box 6633, Leicester. LE4 1WN

  • By calling Leicester City Council on 0116 229 3620

  • By contacting your nearest Reporting Centre – a list is available here

  • By calling the police on 101 (or in an emergency always call 999) 

What support can I get? 

 

  • We can investigate the incident.

  • Help you to cope with the emotional effects of being a victim of hate incident and/ or crime.

  • Support you and other members of your family if necessary.

  • Help you to deal with other agencies, such as the police or housing department.

  • Give you advice on safety and home security.

 

Partnership Working 

 

Leicester City Council works closely in partnership with the police and other agencies to prevent all forms of hate incidents & crime by taking action to support & protect victims.

In partnership, the council encourages anyone who is the victim of, or witness to, hate incident or crime to report it immediately.