Acknowledgements-TrueVisionStampingOutHomophobia.doc

?Security Classification: ?UNCLASSIFIED ?Accessible on the ACPO Intranet by: ?All ?Contents may be seen by: All in Police Service ?Author: ?Matthew Baggott ?Force/Organisation: ?Date Created: ?April 2002 ?Telephone: ?0121 626 5017 There are attachments: Acknowledgements Foreword Contents SECTION 1 Introduction 1.1 About this guide This Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) guide sets out the police service’s approach to identifying and combating hate crime and hate incidents. It expresses the service’s philosophy, based on the duty to protect and respect human rights within a richly diverse society. It provides a point of reference for agreed strategies and tactics and the legislative tools which support them. It presents examples of good practice to be developed and adapted and identifies sources of further information to assist in this. Once individual force procedural guidance has been included, it should provide a one-step guide for front-line staff dealing with hate crime. All users of this manual are encouraged to submit examples of good practice to assist others in finding resolutions to issues that they encounter. The National Crime and Operations Faculty database ‘Genesis’ will be used to store such submissions under the diversity sub-domain. 1.2 Who should be reading it? All those involved in tackling crime – front-line police staff, their line supervisors and senior managers. While those dedicated to working in the field of hate crime will wish to read the guide in its entirety, others will find it useful as a reference manual. This guide complements the ACPO Murder Manual which provides detailed guidance for the investigation of serious crimes. Police forces should consider what lessons learnt from the improved handling of hate crime may be more widely applied across the whole spectrum of investigations. 1.3 Choice of format Hate crimes are covered in a single guide because they do have a lot in common.