Merseyside Police to attend Manchester Pride
August 20th, 2010
After the success of Liverpool Pride, Merseyside Police will also be holding a stall at Manchester Pride on Saturday 28th August. Find out more about Manchester Pride.
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Sponsored Walk for Stop Hate UK
August 13th, 2010
Stop Hate UK are organising a sponsored walk from Wakefield to Castleford on 17th September 2010 to raise funds and to raise awareness about the launch of the Stop Hate Line in Wakefield. Download the event poster.
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Met Police Launch Youth Website
July 31st, 2010
A youth website has been launched by police for the first time. The site http://www.safe.met.police.uk/ focusses on keeping safe and provides information, advice and contacts for young people. Chief Superintendant Adrian Hancock highlights the reasons for the site:
“Young people can be as many as three times more likely to be the victim of a street robbery than any other age group so Safe is just one way we can give them advice on how to keep safe.”
16-year old Wandsworth pupil Ollie Hughes recently tried the website and said: “Young people are a lot more internet savvy than their parents and we’re usually a lot more comfortable online and know how to research and find information so I think Safe would be used by young people to find things out. I think Safe is really easy to use as you get to just read the things you’re interested in or what you want to find out about.”
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Stop and Search Laws changed
July 13th, 2010
Police powers to stop and serach are to be reduced, according to the Home Secretary.
“Police officers will no longer be able to stop and search you under
section 44 of the Terrorism Act. They will now need to have a
‘reasonable suspicion’ that you are a terrorist before you can be
searched under the Terrorism Act.
rather than using section 44 powers, police officers will have to rely
on section 43 powers. These require officers to reasonably suspect the
person to be a terrorist.
Police will be able to search vehicles under section 44 of the law, but
even then only if they have reasonable suspicion of terrorist activity.
The move follows a decision by the European Court of Human Rights
(ECHR).
The ECHR ruled that the use of stop and search powers under section 44
of the Terrorism Act 2000 violated the right to a private life.
The court said that stop and search powers under section 44 were too
broad and did not have enough safeguards to protect civil liberties.”
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Lancashire MP uses maiden speech to highlight disability hate crime
July 7th, 2010
Paul Maynard, MP has highlighted the issue of disability hate crime in his first speech as an MP. The Blackpool North and Thornton Cleveleys Conservative MP is also the first MP with cerebral palsy. He also suffers from epilepsy.
“It’s not just legislative equality, it’s changing the way people think so they don’t see disability anymore, “That’s why making sure we progress on disability hate crime is so important because that is about changing the way people think.”
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LGBT people in Rotherham – your help is needed
July 6th, 2010
LGBT Rotherham and Rotherham Council are seeking help in compiling an anonymous profile of Rotherhams LGBT population. This is to inform and improve their services to this group. They are asking LGBT people who live in, work in or visit the area to complete a survey.
Read more on the South Yorkshire Page
Click here to complete the online questionnaire.
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Participate in Homophobic & Transphobic Hate Crime Research
June 30th, 2010
Researchers at the University of Leeds are carrying out a study about homophobic and transphobic hate crime. Their aim is to discover how best to encourage the reporting of these types of hate crimen and are asking for participants to answer a quick survey. If you would like to help, please take a few moments to fill in the survey.
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EHRC to investigate disability hate crime record
June 17th, 2010
The Equality and Human Rights Commission is to investigate whether enough is being done by public bodies to tackle disability Hate Crime. Read more.
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Language-Free Hate Crime Information launched in Northumbria
May 26th, 2010
Northumbria Police have launched a package of short videos and posters which are entirely language-free. The information is aimed at migrant communities and groups for whom English is not a first language. They focus on eight key areas – anti-social behaviour, knife crime, hate crime, suspicious behaviour leading onto more series crime such as terrorism, violent crime, internet safety, alcohol leading to vulnerability and driving in the UK.
Watch Northumbria Police’s Language-Free Hate Crime Video on YouTube (1 min 20s)
Northumbria Police's Language-Free Hate Crime Poster
See the other posters and videos
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