FOI 75276
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 75276
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 23rd April 2021. Please find below the response to your request:
Our request is as follows:
Question 1a
If West Mersea Police flags antisemitic crimes separately, please provide us with:
The total number of antisemitic crimes recorded in each month of 2018, 2019 and 2020;
The total number of antisemitic violent crimes recorded, in each month of 2018, 2019 and 2020, which fell into the Home Office categories of “homicide”, “violence with injury” and “racially or religiously aggravated assault without injury”;
The total number of antisemitic crimes, in each month of 2018, 2019 and 2020, that resulted in charges being brought; and
The total number of antisemitic non-criminal incidents recorded in each month of 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Question 1b
If West Mersea Police does not flag antisemitic crimes separately, please search for crimes and non-criminal incidents in your CRIS using the following whole keywords (i.e. not parts of words, but whole words, so that when you search for “Jew”, entries containing “jewellery” are not returned). Since use of all the keywords might prevent you from answering this FOI request due to excessive cost, please only use the keywords (starting at the top) that can be used without incurring excessive cost.
The keywords are:
Jew/Jews/Jewish/Judaism
Semite/Semitic/Semitism
Antisemite/Antisemitic/Antisemitism
Yid/Yids/Yiddo/Yiddish
When responding to Q1 or Q1a, please use the following table format, with the following headings:
Month
Number of antisemitic crimes recorded
Number of antisemitic crimes involving allegations of violence*
Number of antisemitic crimes resulting in charges being brought
Number of antisemitic incidents reported
*For the purpose of this request, antisemitic crimes involving allegations of violence are those antisemitic crimes which fell into the Home Office categories of “homicide”, “violence with injury” and “racially or religiously aggravated assault without injury”.
Question 2
Please provide us with the name, e-mail address and telephone number of West Mersea Police’s single point of contact (SPOC) for antisemitic crime, or if West Mersea Police does not have a SPOC specifically for antisemitic crime, then please provide the name, e-mail address and telephone number of the SPOC for hate crime generally.
Reply:-
Q1:
Antisemitic crimes –
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All Antisemitic Crime |
2018 |
2018 Total |
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JAN |
MAY |
AUG |
OCT |
NOV |
DEC |
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Total |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
8 |
|
All Antisemitic Crime |
2019 |
2019 Total |
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MAY |
JUN |
AUG |
SEP |
OCT |
NOV |
DEC |
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Total |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
8 |
|
All Antisemitic Crime |
2020 |
2020 Total |
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JUL |
NOV |
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Total |
1 |
1 |
2 |
Antisemitic crimes involving allegations of violence - NIL RESULT
Antisemitic crimes resulting in charges being brought - ONE
Antisemitic incidents –
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Antisemitic Incidents |
2018 |
2020 |
Grand Total |
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SEP |
MAY |
NOV |
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Total |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
Q2:
West Mercia Police Hate Crime Lead - Superintendent J Baker, Tel – 101, email - [email protected]