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Report data for country
Cases Perpetrators were Sentenced
11,987
Cases Prosecuted
14,535
Cases Recorded by Police
95,552
Explanation to the total figures recorded
Police data represent hate crimes recorded in England and Wales (94,098), and Northern Ireland (1,454). More than a half of hate crimes recorded by police represent "public order offences", some of which fall outside of the scope of the OSCE's definition of hate crime. The total numbers of police recorded hate crimes by bias motivation presented below are higher than this overall number because of cases involving more than one bias. Prosecution data breakdown is as follows: 384 in Northern Ireland and 14,151 in England and Wales. Sentencing data cover England and Wales only. All data cover the period from April 2017 to March 2018.
Intro for the official data graphs

The disaggregated data below are for England and Wales only. The Police and several civil society organizations involved in monitoring hate incidents (including Community Security Trust and Tell MAMA) are on a regular basis exchanging data about the recorded incidents. This data sharing is governed by the Information Sharing Agreements signed between the Police and each of the civil society organizations. As a result, some of the information presented below as part of the official monitoring of hate crimes (particularly data on anti-Semitic hate crime and hate crime motivated by intolerance against Muslims) is also included in the reporting by the above mentioned civil society organizations elsewhere on this page.

Bias motivations and crime types
Mandated bias motivation
Crime types figures
Type of Crime
Cases Recorded by Police
71251
Mandated bias motivation
Crime types figures
Type of Crime
Cases Recorded by Police
672
Mandated bias motivation
Crime types figures
Type of Crime
Cases Recorded by Police
2965
Mandated bias motivation
Crime types figures
Type of Crime
Cases Recorded by Police
264
Crime types figures
Type of Crime
Cases Recorded by Police
1916
Mandated bias motivation
Crime types figures
Type of Crime
Cases Recorded by Police
13289
Mandated bias motivation
Crime types figures
Type of Crime
Cases Recorded by Police
7226
NPC
Description Type
Reports
Organization Report

Hate crimes recorded in this category can include any group defined by race, colour, nationality or ethnic or national origin, including countries within the UK, and "Gypsy or Irish Travellers". It also includes persons targeted because they are an asylum seeker or refugee.

Bias motivation
Description Type
Reports
Organization Report

Of this number, 11,638 hate crimes were motivated by bias on the grounds of sexual orientation and 1,651 were motivated by transphobic bias.

Description Type
Reports
Organization Report

This number refers to hate crimes against Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, members of other religions, on the basis of unknown or no religion (atheists).

ODIHR Recommendations

ODIHR observes that the United Kingdom has met most OSCE commitments on hate crime data collection and reporting.

Overall incidents summary

Community Security Trust (CST) reported descriptive incidents as well as statistical data. This explains the discrepancy between the graphic above and the incidents included below.