1. London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Tackling hate crime

2. Strategic Priorities
Community Plan themes– One Tower Hamlets & Safe & Supportive Community (Councils No Place for Hate Campaign)
-Tackling and preventing crime, empowerment & early intervention
-Challenging prejudice and making Tower Hamlets “no place for hate”
-Reducing fear of crime
Community Safety Partnership and sub-groups Prevent Board, TMG, NPFHF and Cohesion Working Group
Children and Young People Plan and Cohesion duties
Equalities legislation and duties to tackle discrimination and bullying
Community Cohesion duty
Preventing Violent Extremism Agenda on Prevent strand
Safeguarding duty

4. Aims of No Place for Hate Forum
NPFHF was the first body established in the borough (formerly RHIAF created in 1999) to create a cohesive borough.
Brings agencies together to make Tower Hamlets a better place to live, work and visit by developing and promoting a co-ordinated response to hate crime that:
protects and supports victims
deters perpetrators
challenges prejudice and hate
and contributes to creating a safer, more cohesive community.

5. Support and Protection
Encouraging and enabling reporting
Range of reporting options available (online, Police, landlords, national charity lines)
Third Party Reporting centres
Victim support services
Two specialist Hate Crime Workers
Researching needs
NPFH Evaluation Report and Recommendations
Staff Training
Training for anyone who lives and works in the borough

6. Investigation and Enforcement
100% investigation of reported crimes
Police sanction detection rate targets
Legislative tools
Hate Incidents Panel and range of tools and tactics available
Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officers and RSL policies
School based Police Officers and teachers
Anti bullying policies and reporting mechanisms

7. Prevention, awareness and community cohesion
No Place for Hate
LWOP Award for best partnership forum in bringing positive change and promoting peace
Invitation to Downing Street
Campaign materials
Outreach activities
NPFH Adult Champions and Youth Service Champions
Schools NPFH Pledge
Local media profile and NPFH Communications Strategy

8. No Place for Hate Pledge
Strengthens NPFH Campaign and cohesion messages
Public condemnation of hate
Venue hire condition embedded in pledge further to TMG recommendation
Promoting stronger partnership stand
Encourage all to unite and pledge
Places responsibility on all to be proactive
To challenge prejudices in self & others
To instill community confidence and cohesion
Youth No Place for Hate Pledge

9. Brexit and the impact in the community
Challenges
Consistently one of highest levels of hate in London
One form of hate escalating to another form
Brexit and the impact in the community
Far Right Threats/ Disorder
Tackling under reporting
RSL’s to have HC policies, recording HC and to be more engaged with strategic priorities
Increasing Hate Crime prosecutions
No national indicator to use as leverage
Tackling fear of crime
Addressing public perception that hate crime not taken seriously
Encouraging all agencies to be pro active in tackling/reporting/recording hate
Minimising potential for one form of hate to escalate to another form of hate
One incident undoes good work and relations
Maintaining partnership commitment and co-operation

10. What can you do? Partnership/joint work (THNPFHF and referrals to HIP)
Incorporate hate crime into ASB minimum standards
Ensure robust hate crime policies/procedures/tenancy agreement
Monitoring and performance management
Publish policies and procedures
Train and support staff to respond appropriately
Encourage and enable reporting
Protection and support for victims (target hardening, signposting, referral)
Increase enforcement action
Challenge discriminatory behaviour if it is safe to do so
HR and H&S procedures to protect and support staff who are victims
Prevention – tenancy conditions, designing out crime, estate patrols, diversion schemes, community cohesion work
Sign the organisational No Place for Hate Pledge
Display hate crime literature and posters
Become a NPFH Champion

11. Recommendations
Strengthened partnership working across agencies and a more joined up response. Tackling hate crime should be everyone’s priority
Increased engagement with young people
Using Pledge to further embed good practice
Increase in enforcement and prosecutions on perpetrators
Movement from focus on number of reports to ensuring quality of service
Stronger communications strategy and reinforcing NPFH campaign and messages through all TMG members