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Evening Standard
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Anthony France

Former Met chief calls for ministers to scrap non-crime hate incidents

Former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe - (PA)

Ministers could be forced to abolish non-crime hate incidents after a former Scotland Yard chief tabled amendments to the law in the House of Lords.

Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe and Lord Toby Young of Acton, director of the Free Speech Union, launched efforts to change the Crime and Policing Bill that would stop requiring police to record NCHIs.

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