Non-crime Hate Incidents - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:56 pm on 27 October 2025.

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Photo of Lord Hogan-Howe Lord Hogan-Howe Crossbench 2:56, 27 October 2025

My Lords, rather than waiting for the National Police Chiefs’ Council and College of Policing review, is it not time that Parliament made a decision on this issue? The danger is that we have got to this position because those two bodies have allowed it to develop. Surely the time has come, as the noble Lord, Lord Strasburger, pointed out, for the police not to be investigating non-crimes, interviewing people who have not committed crimes and recording data on people who have not committed crime, with all the bureaucracy and timewasting that go with it.