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Hate Crime Policing In Norwich
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On Community Chest, Dominik interviews Val Green and Jonathan Scully of the police hate crime unit. The discussion focuses on hate crime policing, including the distinction between hate incidents and crimes based on victim perception. Key moments include a look at recorded statistics for racist and homophobic incidents, the role of police staff in victim support, and the unit's collaboration with community partners like Age Concern and FLAG.
Dominik hosts an interview on Community Chest with Val Green and Jonathan Scully of the police hate crime unit, which also includes Detective Sergeant Ian Fox and Detective Constable Dan Cox. The discussion covers the definition of hate incidents based on perception and the role of police staff in supporting victims. The guests note that in the previous year, over 350 racist and 60 homophobic incidents were recorded. They discuss the challenges of underreporting, particularly in rural areas where verbal abuse may have been normalized, and the targeting of Lithuanian and Portuguese populations in Norwich. The unit utilizes third-party reporting through community partners such as FLAG, Age Concern, and the Norwich and Norfolk Racial Equality Council.
Topics
- Definition and perception of hate crimes
- Victim support and advocacy roles
- Reporting mechanisms and statistics in Norwich
- Reporting hate crimes and available contact methods
- Vulnerable populations and target groups for outreach
- Partnerships with community organisations
Participants
- Dominik
- Val Green
- Jonathan Scully
- Unidentified speaker
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Make it a little bit clearer. And basically, a hate incident is any incident which is perceived to be motivated by hate or prejudice by the victim or any other person. And that's whether it's a crime or not. And the key to all of that really is perception. So if you believe you're being targeted,
Receiving verbal abuse, and it's happened over the years. It's almost you know normalizes it, and think, well, yeah, somebody's called me that for ten, twenty years. Then, what? Why bother doing something about it now?
Yeah, that there is no pattern and there is no identifiable person. There is, you know, you somebody doesn't fit into that description. It can be anybody, really. And it's, is, are there areas geographically where this these things are more likely to happen? You mentioned rural areas. Is is it more?