Supplementary Memorandum submitted by
the Police Service of Northern Ireland
Although I understand that the official closing
date for responses to the above inquiry has passed, I wished to
inform the Committee of some work the Northern Ireland Policing
Board has been involved with in relation to Hate Crime.
— The Annual Policing Plan, which includes
the policing priorities for the Police Service of Northern Ireland
(PSNI) has contained performance indicators and objectives in
respect of the monitoring of crime and incidents of a racist/homophobic
nature (for the last two years 2002-03 and 2003-04). This has
allowed the Policing Board to monitor the extent of the problem
regularly and to hold the Chief Constable to account for his actions
in respect of hate crime.
— The Policing Board is in the process
of commissioning research into the views of minority ethnic groups
and non-heterosexuals towards the PSNI, the Policing Board and
District Policing Partnerships. This work is being undertaken
in consultation with organisations representing these minority
groups.
— The Policing Board, in carrying out
its role of holding the Chief Constable and the PSNI publicly
to account, have received presentations from the authors of the
research reports "An Acceptable Prejudice?" (Institute
for Conflict Research, 2002) and "Racist Harassment in Northern
Ireland" (Jarman and Monaghan, 2003). Where recommendations
were made in respect of the PSNI, the Policing Board brought these
to the Chief Constable's attention and requested a response detailing
how the PSNI were taking the recommendations forward.
29 July 2004
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