Hate crimes from 2016

​​​​Request ​814994079

Please provide hate crime data in Jersey from 1 January 2016 to the most recent date available, broken down by calendar year.

For each year, please provide the number of reported hate crime incidents, broken down by the following variables: 

​1. Protected characteristic / hate motivation 

Ethnicity / race 

Sexual orientation 

Gender identity 

Religion / faith 

Disability 

Sex / gender, if recorded 

2. Type of incident / offence 

Physical assault 

Criminal damage to property 

Verbal abuse / name-calling 

Intimidation 

Harassment 

3. Reporting route 

Online reporting tool 

Report made in person at a police station 

Report made when police attended an incident 

Telephone report Any other reporting route recorded

Please provide this data in a format that shows the intersection of these categories, where held. In other words, for each calendar year, I would like to be able to identify: 

the number of incidents in each hate-motivation category, 

the type of incident involved, 

and the reporting route used. 

For example, if held, I would like the data presented so it is possible to identify figures such as: 

the number of harassment incidents motivated by sex/gender in each year, 

the number of verbal abuse incidents motivated by religion in each year, and the number of incidents reported online versus by other reporting routes. 

If available, please also provide a further breakdown by the sex of the victim and/or sex of the complainant, so that it is possible to identify, for example, the number of women reporting harassment-related hate incidents per year.

Response

Please find attached the data supplied by States of Jersey Police relating to points 1 to 3.

Attachment FOI 814994079.pdf​

Please note blank cells within the tables represent zero recorded incidents. Offence categories are recorded in accordance with police crime recording classifications. Reporting method data (Question 3) has only been recorded separately since 2023 and does not cover all incidents shown in earlier tables and includes only certain incident types (Racial, Homophobic, Disability and Faith)

Where numbers are fewer than five, disclosure control is applied to avoid identification of individuals. Article 25(2) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied. 

Article applied

25 Personal information 

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if – 

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018;​ and 

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.​