What is Hate Crime?
Any incident perceived to have been committed against any person or property on the grounds
of a particular person's ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or
disability, whether it amounts to a crime or not is commonly referred to as a hate crime.
Hate crimes can take many forms, including: verbal abuse, physical assault,
intimidation and damage to property.
Hate crime is wrong and victims do not have to put up with it.
Help is available.
You can find
out more about specific Hate Crime incidents here.
Specific Incidents
You can obtain further information on how to report specific incidents and what can be done to tackle hate crime by clicking the appropriate links below:
Surrey Police Statement on Hate Crime
Surrey Police will not tolerate any form of Hate Crime and will
speedily respond, investigate, identify and prosecute offenders to the satisfaction
of the victim and the community, thereby seeking to reduce repeat victimisation.
Surrey Police recognise the reluctance of some victims to come forward to police
for a variety of reasons. We are committed to identifying and prosecuting perpetrators.
Reporting incidents to police provides essential information which enables us to
prevent further incidents taking place and to identify those responsible.
You can find more information
on reporting Hate Crime here.
Our policy is to fully record and exhaustively
investigate all forms of Hate Crime. We will give high priority to the investigation
of Hate crime and a full range of investigative and forensic tactices will be employed.