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UK to Revise Non-Crime Hate Incident Recording by 2027

3/31/2026

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The UK government will revise how police in England and Wales record non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) to focus on crime prevention and safeguarding.
New Home Office guidance will limit logging to relevant incidents, following a review that found about 30,000 NCHIs recorded from 2022 to 2025 were disproportionate.
The Home Office plans to implement these changes by early 2027, but the Conservative Party criticized them as inadequate, claiming they still burden officers with non-criminal monitoring.

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The UK government will revise how police in England and Wales record non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) to focus on crime prevention and safeguarding.
New Home Office guidance will limit logging to relevant incidents, following a review that found about 30,000 NCHIs recorded from 2022 to 2025 were disproportionate.
The Home Office plans to implement these changes by early 2027, but the Conservative Party criticized them as inadequate, claiming they still burden officers with non-criminal monitoring.