Hate crime

Hate crimes or incidents are any incident or offence that you as the victim (or as a witness) perceive was motivated by hostility or prejudice based on any aspect of your identity. This could be related to age, disability, race or nationality, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation.

Abuse can be verbal, physical or emotional and include intimidation, attack to property or person and online abuse.  

Hate crimes and incidents are not acceptable. We take them very seriously and work alongside the police and other partners to tackle them. There are lots of ways you can report any hate crime or incident, so that we can do something about them and make our communities safer for everyone.

Reporting hate crime

If the hate crime or incident puts an individual or property in immediate danger then call 999.

To report hate crime incidents:

• call Gloucestershire Constabulary on the non-emergency 101 line.
• visit Stop Hate UK website or call their 24 hour helpline on 0800 138 1625
• visit Crimestoppers,a national charity with a free helpline for reporting crime anonymously.