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The example that the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, raised in relation to the comedian Graham Linehan, was not a non-crime hate incident. It was an investigation of a hate crime. Whether that investigation and the interview of Mr Linehan were appropriate is another matter entirely, but it was not a non-crime hate incident. Nor was the notorious incident where police knocked on the door of a Daily Telegraph journalist, Allison Pearson, on Remembrance Sunday. Whatever the merits of the police doing that—and I suggest that it was extremely unwise—it was not a non-crime hate incident that they were investigating.