Recording of Non-Crime Hate Incidents

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/003318/Y

Version Date: 25/06/2025

The Policy and Performance Analysis Department have provided the following information.

1 In what year did your force start recording non-crime hate incidents?

Dorset Police’s current records start from 2015.

2 Please provide any document laying out the policy for recording such incidents?

Dorset Police follows the national policy which can be seen here: The National Standard for Incident Recording NSIR 2011

3 Please provide any email or document instructing your force to record such incidents, from for example the Home Office, Association of Chief Police Officers etc?

This can be found online here: Non-Crime Hate Incidents: Code of Practice on the Recording and Retention of Personal Data (accessible) - GOV.UK

4 In each of the years your force has recorded such incidents, how many have been recorded in each year?

Please see below table showing all NCHIs recorded since Niche was implemented on 21/05/2015.

This data was obtained from our NCHI database.

*Partial-year data