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A
racist incident is when you, your family or property is
subjected to violence, damage or harassment because of your
racial origins or the colour of your skin.
The
police use the following definition when recording a racist
incident:
"A racist incident is any incident which is perceived
to be racist by the victim or any other person".
Anyone can report a racist incident or crime and all incidents reported will be treated seriously and recorded.
Racist incidents can take many forms
Why you should report it
How to report a racist crime
Other reporting centres
Specialist officers dealing with racist incidents and hate crime
Confidentiality
Our service to you: racist incident survey
Can anyone trace that I have visited these web pages?
Download a booklet about reporting racist crime (available in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujarati, Italian, Punjabi & Urdu)
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Racist incidents can take many forms
A racist attack may be easy to identify due to verbal or written threats of a racist nature. However, it may be that a personal attack or damage to property may not contain evidence that the incident was racist. This does not matter.
It is our job to help you identify what has happened and make sure that appropriate action is taken.
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Why you should report it
All racist incidents are totally unacceptable and we need to know about them.
We take racist incidents seriously and understand that this kind of crime can have a devastating affect on the individual and the wider community. We are committed to giving all victims of crime a professional and sensitive service and are determined to eliminate all incidents of this kind.
Reporting racist crime means you help the police to build up patterns of crime and apprehend offenders. Any information you can give us will help us build up our knowledge. A name, an address or a description of people who commit hate crime will enable us to target criminals and stop the abuse.
Left unreported people who carry out these crimes are likely to commit similar offences again and could be harming others. Your report may prevent it from happening to someone else.
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How to report a racist crime
Anyone can report a racist crime. You can tell us about a Hate Crime in several ways:
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Other Reporting Centres
We are working with other agencies to encourage people to report hate crimes.
You may not want to talk to the police and would feel more comfortable talking to someone else. We have set up reporting centres across Hertfordshire so that you can do this.
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Specialist Officers dealing with racist incidents and Hate Crime
There are specialist officers dealing with Hate Crime in Hertfordshire. These officers are based within Community Safety Units around the county.
Hate Crime Officers will help you deal with what’s happened to you. They work in units made up of police officers and police staff who don’t wear a uniform.
They can arrange to meet you at a place where you feel comfortable and safe. They will work with you and provide support if you need to make a statement have to attend court.
Link to contact details for Hate Crime Officers
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Confidentiality
All reports of racist incidents will be treated in the strictest confidence. If you have any doubts your Hate Crime Officer can explain our reporting procedure to you.
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Our service to you: Racist Incident Survey
We know that racially motivated incidents can be distressing for the victim, their families and sometimes the wider community.
We at Hertfordshire Constabulary have developed a survey in order to find out what victims of racially motivated incidents think of the service that we have given. The information provided will help us meet the victims' need in the future, improve our service and take steps to prevent such incidents from occuring again.
Most victims will recieve a questionnaire to complete. The responses will be treated as confidential and will only be used to assist us in improving our service.
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Can anyone trace that I have visited these web pages?
If someone else has access to your computer it is possible that some or all of these web pages will be in a "history" area of web pages visited on your computer.
Click here to find out how to clear areas of your computer "history" of web pages you have visited.
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Hate Crime booklet
We
have produced a booklet that gives information on how to report a racist incident, why you should report it and what help is available.
The
booklet is available in English and translated
into Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujarati, Italian,
Punjabi & Urdu. Please contact the Community
Safety Unit at your local Police
Station
The
booklet is also downloadable in Adobe Acrobat (PDF format). If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader
installed on your computer you can download a free
copy.
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