Disability Hate Crime Matters – event report and next steps

Download the report:

Disability Hate Crime Matters Report – PDF

Disability Hate Crime Matters Report – Word Doc

On 31^st March 2016 over 100 people attended an event held at New Scotland Yard run jointly by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and Inclusion London to promote Disability Hate Crime Matters, an initiative aimed at improving the identification, investigation and response by police for Disability Related Hate Crime and Incidents.

Representatives came from London Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations (DDPOs) and the MPS as well as other agencies including local government, health, the Crown Prosecution Service, the British Transport Police, the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) and the media.

After the presentations we broke down into discussion groups. Recommendations that resulted from the group discussions included:

• MPS and other agencies to pro-actively and routinely seek to engage DDPOs in DHC work.
• MPS, MOPAC and funders interested in DHC to work strategically together to ensure funding builds the capacity of DDPOs to focus on DHC.
• Improved reporting processes through more investment in support to report and improving the accessibility of these reporting mechanisms .
• Investment in more awareness raising and training for police, DDPOs and the community in what Disability Hate crime is and how to report it.

Progress since March 2016

Progress by the Metropolitan Police Service includes:

• Continued Disability Hate Crime Matters (DCHM) briefings to key police officers and crime reporting centre staff.  As of 25/10/16 there are now 702 reports of DHC since the briefings began on 19/1/2016 . This is unprecedented. There have been in excess of twenty briefings given by DC Maria Gray with input from Anne Novis and Ruth Bashall and these are ongoing.
• Each borough is now disseminating briefings to frontline staff.
• Looking at additional ways that police reports can be checked to see whether crimes where a victim is a Disabled person   should have been flagged as DHC. One of those ways is to check for the use of offensive words that are regularly used against Deaf or Disabled people. This is done via a word search on our systems.

Read the report here:

Disability Hate Crime Matters Report – PDF

Disability Hate Crime Matters Report – Word Doc

 

Hate Cime against Disabled People training [DDPOs only]

A series of 4 training events on different areas of handling and reporting Hate Crime against Disabled people.

[This training is for user led Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations only]

Following on from our previous Hate Crime events, you requested more indepth information about different areas of work, including third party reporting, the Law and supporting victims. In response, we are offering this series of training events covering 4 key areas of handling and dealing with Hate Crime against Disabled People:

• 1 – Third party reporting (8 December 2016)
• 2 – Law covering Disability Hate Crime: ‘What the law says..’ (17 January 2017)
• 3 – Advocacy & support for victims (21 February 2017)
• 4 – Next steps: How the police deal with hate crime reports (14 March 2017)

For more information and to book your place visit our Power Up Training and Events page.