Priority 5: Hate Crime and Community Cohesion

Prioritise prevention through education and awareness campaigns around the causes and consequences of all hate crimes.
Further develop their Hate Crime Champions scheme to strengthen communities in the fight against hate, giving victims another route to the right help and support.
Identify hate crime at the earliest opportunity and in cases where it overlaps with other crimes or ASB.
Undertake effective investigations to identify and bring offenders of hate crime to justice.
Ensure officers and staff are trained to communicate empathetically with victims of hate crime and where needed connect them with victim support services.

Work with communities and partners to encourage reporting of hate crime and make it easier and safe to do so.
Engage with communities to understand and identify community tensions, ensuring that policing feels a part of those communities, rather than something that is happening to them.
Work with partners to protect communities from a range of harms, including hate crime, intolerance and extremism.
Make communities and individuals active partners by building trust and listening to voices such as the Police Powers External Advisory Panel, the Independent Scrutiny and Oversight Board and the Northumbria Police Hate Crime Board.