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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 371334
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 8th November 2024. Please find below the response to your request:
Could you please send me the following information:
1) The number of antisemitic offences recorded by your force each month from October 2021 to October 2024 inclusive.
2) The number of Islamophobic offences recorded by your force each month from October 2021 to October 2024 inclusive.
Reply
West Mercia Police hold the information requested. Please see below:
Caveat: On specific occasions, as defined by the Home Office Crime and Incident Recording standards, where a hate motivated report is made to police but no criminal offence has been made out a hate incident can be recorded instead which is classed as Non-Crime. Included below are both crimes and non-crimes.
1) The number of antisemitic offences recorded by your force each month from October 2021 to October 2024 inclusive.
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Anti-Semitic offences by Month |
Calendar Year |
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2021 |
2021 Total |
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|
10 |
11 |
12 |
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|
CRIME |
2 |
|
|
2 |
|
NONCRIME |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
2 |
|
Anti-Semitic offences by Month |
Calendar Year |
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2022 |
2022 Total |
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|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
||
|
CRIME |
1 |
|
2 |
|
1 |
3 |
1 |
|
1 |
|
|
1 |
10 |
|
NONCRIME |
1 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
|
|
2 |
|
5 |
|
|
2 |
|
2 |
|
1 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
2 |
1 |
15 |
|
Anti-Semitic offences by Month |
Calendar Year |
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|
2023 |
2023 Total |
||||||||||||
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
||
|
CRIME |
1 |
|
|
5 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
1 |
1 |
6 |
2 |
19 |
|
NONCRIME |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
1 |
3 |
|
|
1 |
|
|
5 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
1 |
1 |
8 |
3 |
22 |
|
Anti-Semitic offences by Month |
Calendar Year |
||||||||||
|
2024 |
2024 Total |
||||||||||
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
||
|
CRIME |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
NONCRIME |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
2) The number of Islamophobic offences recorded by your force each month from October 2021 to October 2024 inclusive.
|
Islamophobic offences by Month |
Calendar Year |
|||
|
2021 |
2021 Total |
|||
|
10 |
11 |
12 |
||
|
CRIME |
2 |
1 |
|
3 |
|
NONCRIME |
1 |
|
3 |
4 |
|
|
3 |
1 |
3 |
7 |
|
Islamophobic offences by Month |
Calendar Year |
||||||||||||
|
2022 |
2022 Total |
||||||||||||
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
||
|
CRIME |
2 |
|
2 |
2 |
4 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
|
24 |
|
NONCRIME |
1 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
8 |
|
|
3 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
6 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
32 |
|
Islamophobic offences by Month |
Calendar Year |
||||||||||||
|
2023 |
2023 Total |
||||||||||||
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
||
|
CRIME |
|
3 |
1 |
|
|
2 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
3 |
|
19 |
|
NONCRIME |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
6 |
|
|
1 |
4 |
3 |
1 |
|
3 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
3 |
|
25 |
|
Islamophobic offences by Month |
Calendar Year |
||||||||||
|
2024 |
2024 Total |
||||||||||
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
||
|
CRIME |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
|
|
5 |
1 |
1 |
16 |
|
NONCRIME |
|
|
1 |
1 |
|
|
1 |
4 |
1 |
|
8 |
|
|
1 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
1 |
9 |
2 |
1 |
24 |