The police figures include hate speech incidents, data reported by local anti-discrimination services, and online hate speech incidents, which could not be separated. Hate crimes recorded by the police can only be disaggregated by either bias motive or type of crime (both breakdowns were reported to ODIHR) but not simultaneously by both. The disaggregation below disaggregation shows the total numbers for each bias motivation.
The following types of hate crime were registered by the police: 603 physical assaults; 422 incidents of damage to property; 212 incidents of vandalism; 472 cases of threats and/or threatening behaviour; 2,100 incidents of insult; 48 cases of spitting; 48 cases of bullying; 57 incidents of refusal of service and 123 other crimes.
A bill that specifically includes gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics under the discrimination ground of sex is being considered in the parliament. This law will also affect the criminal law provisions by expanding the current protected characteristic of "sex".
ODIHR observes that the Netherlands have not reported on cases of hate crimes separately from cases of hate speech and/or discrimination.