Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the College of Policing’s operational guidance for investigating and recording allegations of non-crime hate incidents.

The College of Policing is independent from Government and its role is clear: setting high professional standards; sharing what works best; acting as the national voice of policing; and ensuring police training and ethics is of the highest possible quality.

The College of Policing has recently consulted on revised operational guidance on hate crime, which the College plans to publish in due course to support forces dealing with hate crimes and hate incidents.