Written Question·Home Office·UIN 8823
Police: Data Protection
Tabled: 14 October 2024
Answered: 22 October 2024
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department issues to police forces on the (a) recording and (b) retention of personal information on police data bases for hate incidents that are not deemed to be a crime.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonThis Government has already committed to reversing the previous Government’s decision to downgrade the monitoring of antisemitic and Islamophobic hate.It is vital that the police can capture data relating to non-crime hate incidents when it is proportiona...
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