Inspection Protocol for Hate Crime
Attempts to control both overt and covert discrimination within society have been made in thelast thirty years. The main pieces of legislation have been the Equal Opportunities Act 1975,the Race Relations Act 1976 and the Disabilities Act 1995.Home Office and other research since the 1980�s led to a conclusion that certain racial andreligious minority groups were becoming targets of hate crime. The Public Order Act 1986introduced new criminal offences geared at combating hate crime and ACPO produced a GoodPractice Guide for Police Response to Racial Incidents. The idea of Hate Crime is an extensionof these earlier pieces of legislation.
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