Category: NCHI

New Home Office Guidance to Stop Police From Recording Non-Crime Hate Incidents ‘Because Someone Is Offended’

Home Secretary Suella Braverman is to order police to only record non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) when absolutely necessary, which campaigners say is a major win for free speech. Braverman said the draft guidelines, which will go before Parliament on Monday, will prevent police “wrongly getting involved in lawful debate.” British police have been encouraging the…


Free Speech Activists Wade Into Teenage Quran Row Treated as a ‘Hate Incident’ by Police

The Free Speech Union has called on police to drop a “hate incident” record after a pupil caused “slight damage” to a copy of the Quran when it fell on the floor in a school. Last Wednesday, the BBC reported that four pupils were suspended from a West Yorkshire secondary school after an accusation that…