Hate Crime and Non-Crime Hate Incidents

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/26/004422/W

Version Date: 02/06/2026

The Alliance Resourcing & Development Department and the Local Policing Team have provided the following information:

Please provide the following information:
1. Training Provision (as at the date of this request)
a) Whether police officers and/or police staff receive training relating to the identification and recording of:
- Hate crime
- Non-Crime Hate Incidents (NCHI)

All initial students receive the ‘responding to hate’ lesson.

1. b) If such training is provided, please indicate:
   - Whether the training is mandatory or optional

Mandatory

- Whether it forms part of:
         Initial training only
         Refresher training only
         Both initial and refresher training

Initial training.

- The format of the training (e.g. classroom-based, online module, blended       learning, part of initial police learning and development programme)

Classroom.

1. c) If available, please state:
   - The approximate duration of the training (e.g. number of hours), and

120 minutes with flexibility for discussions at the end.

- The date the current training package was last updated or reviewed.

Last reviewed August 2024.

2. Quality Assurance
   a) Whether your force has internal processes for reviewing, auditing, or supervising hate crime or NCHI recording decisions.
   b) If so, please briefly describe the nature of these processes (e.g. supervisory review, dip sampling, internal audit, dedicated hate crime lead).
   
   

Dorset Police operate a front-end recording model for all calls for service from members of the public. Crimes and incidents are recorded by Contact Centre staff at the front end of the reporting process. The Force Hate Crime and Incident Policy and Procedure provides clear guidance to staff on the assessment, recording of a response to non-crime hate incidents. All contact management staff receive a bespoke non-crime hate incident training input from the Force Crime Registrar.

Incident Assessment Officers within the Force Crime and Incident Registrar (FCIR) team review ASB and hate incidents daily. This review captures incidents reported via contact management (101 / 999 / email) and will identify cases that require a hate flag or that require crime stats but also those cases that have been flagged incorrectly, where the flag will be removed.

Hate crime investigations are overseen by Inspectors who have to complete a review for each matter.

Each team has a monthly performance meeting, hate crimes form part of that meeting.

There is a dedicated Quarterly Hate Crime Review Panel to scrutinise hate crime and identify areas for improvement, alongside championing good work.

Hate Crime lead reports quarterly into the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Board chaired by one of the Executive Officers.