Antisocial Behaviour and Hate Policy

The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 defines a hate incident as any unwanted behaviour, which is demonstrated or motivated by hostility or prejudice or because of a personal characteristic. This could take many forms including:

• verbal abuse
• physical abuse
• threatening behaviour
• deliberate 'outing' or threat of 'outing'
• offensive graffiti
• harassment by phone, text, email or letters
• cyber bullying

We have a broad range of tools and powers available to us to tackle those who carry out hate incidents and we will work with you to take swift action, using the most appropriate tool to resolve the issues and support you.

See all of our Hate Crime safe reporting centres.