Hate crime training of police officers in Nottingham: a critical review
Loretta Trickett, Paula Louise Hamilton · Nottingham Trent University's Institutional Repository (Nottingham Trent Repository) · 2016
Police for their co-operation in facilitating the research.Dr Paul Hamilton has provided support throughout the research and has helped to design the questions as well as commenting on various drafts of the report.He has also made several key recommendations based on the study.The author is most grateful for his involvement with this work and the insights he has provided.Most importantly, the author would like to acknowledge the contributions made by the individual police officers that she interviewed -all of whom gave up their time when they were already extremely busy.The officers have provided a valuable and informed insight into issues around the policing of hate crime in Nottinghamshire which will also help to inform research both nationally and internationally. Aims and Objectives of the ResearchThe aim of this research in Nottinghamshire was to gain a police perspective on responding to hate crime in the region.The research was designed to find out how the police were dealing with hate crime, what sorts of crime and incidents they came across, how they perceived the training provided by the force, how useful they found the hate crime risk assessment forms, how they worked with other agencies, what problems and barriers they may have encountered and how these may be tackled.It was most important to find out about these issues given a number of developments including the publication of the Government's Hate Crime Strategy (HO 2012), two CJJI (2013; 2015) inquiries into Disability Hate Crime and the publication of Police Hate Crime Strategy and Operational Guidance by The College of Policing (2014).Qualitative interviews were undertaken with both response officers and those on beat teams.