Source · Select Committees · Women and Equalities Committee
Recommendation 6
6
Accepted in Part
Ensure police training on recognising and recording intersectional hate crimes against Muslim women.
Recommendation
The Government should take steps to ensure that police officers are appropriately trained on how to recognise, record, and respond effectively to hate crimes perpetrated against Muslim women. The Government should work with the police to ensure that both the police and victims of hate crime know that they can express their own perception as to what has motivated a hate crime, and that hate crimes can be recorded as motivated by more than one protected characteristic. The Crown Prosecution Service should track intersectional factors in hate crime prosecution and develop specific guidance on gendered anti-Muslim hate offences. (Recommendation, Paragraph 56)
Government response summary AI-generated
The government agrees Mayors are well placed to work with community organisations and will write to all UK Mayors encouraging them to promote the BMT reporting service, but does not commit to further police training or CPS guidance as requested.
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Government Response
Accepted in Part
HM Government · verbatim extract
Accepted in Part
The Committee asked that Government ensure police officers are appropriately trained to effectively deal with hate crimes targeted at Muslim women. The Government recognises the importance of ensuring officers are appropriately trained to recognise, record and respond to hate crime, including offences affecting Muslim women. The College of Policing is responsible for setting national training standards and developing Authorised Professional Practice (APP), including on hate crime. The Home Office works closely with the College of Policing to ensure that guidance reflects evidential and operational requirements. Individual forces are responsible for delivering training locally in accordance with those standards. Across the country, a number of individual forces have implemented hate crime awareness and training initiatives. This is facilitated by resources made available online as well as through collaborating with external organisations. This supports police officers with the skills required to effectively identify, record and respond to hate crimes, including those perpetrated against Muslim women. As an independent prosecuting authority, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) operates separately from Government, and Ministers cannot make commitments on its behalf. However, the CPS engages directly with the College of Policing on the development of hate crime learning products and keeps its published legal guidance under continuous review to ensure it remains accurate and up to date.
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