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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jamie Grierson

UK police leaders to call for ‘non-crime hate incidents’ to be scrapped

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The chair of the College of Policing said forces ‘don’t want to be policing tweets’. Photograph: Westend61/Getty Images

The category of non-crime hate incidents is no longer fit for purpose and could be scrapped under plans to be presented to the home secretary.

A review by police leaders will call for non-crime hate incidents to be replaced with a new “commonsense” system, the Telegraph reports. Under the new scheme, only the most serious incidents would be recorded as antisocial behaviour.

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