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ER Editor: Telegraph articles are usually behind a paywall. Here’s the Daily Mail —
Non-crime hate incidents ‘to be scrapped under new plans’…and replaced by ‘common sense’ approach
Lord Herbert, chairman of the College of Policing, said: ‘NCHIs will go as a concept. That system will be scrapped and replaced with a completely different system.
‘There will be no recording of anything like it on crime databases. Instead, only the most serious category of what will be treated as anti-social behaviour will be recorded. It’s a sea change.’
He said the recording of non-crime hate incidents had ‘drawn police into an area I don’t believe they want to be in’.
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Research suggests NCHIs take up to 60,000 hours of police time every year, with more than 13,000 NCHIs logged by police in the year to June last year.
Tom Harding, the College of Policing’s director of operational standards, previously said scrapping NCHIs would stop officers recording ‘trivial fallings-out online’ and allow them to focus on real policing.
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In the future, Britons will be shocked to learn that police could arrest someone just because a stranger had claimed they felt “distress or alarm” at an opinion the person expressed.
The non-crime hate incident was an Orwellian measure which brought police into disrepute after…— Allison Pearson (@AllisonPearson) December 23, 2025
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UK Police To Scrap ‘Non-Crime Hate Incidents’ After Free Speech Backlash
Campaigners have welcomed the shift but warn that any replacement system could be quietly expanded once again.
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Police in England will stop recording so-called ‘non-crime hate incidents’ (NCHI)—statements believed to be “motivated by prejudice” but that don’t meet the criteria for criminal offences—because they are “not fit for purpose” and pose a threat to free speech.
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That is according to plans set to be released by police leaders from the College of Policing—which has previously criticised the recording of these phoney ‘incidents’—and the National Police Chiefs’ Council. The Telegraph reports that the plans will be supported by the Labour government, even though it has, until now, gone along with the recording of these incidents.
The @SpeechUnion has been campaigning against non-crime hate incidents since its inception in 2020. At last, the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs’ Council have seen sense. #PoliceOurStreetsNotOurTweets https://t.co/yQbG8j53hF
— Toby Young (@toadmeister) December 22, 2025
NCHIs have been issued under both the existing Labour and the previous Conservative governments, including to children—in one case, for saying a classmate smelt “like fish”—and, predictably, to those who dare to question gender ideology.
Journalist Sarah Phillimore said the “slow death” of this system is “a lesson to those fighting the gender wars—none of this will go quickly or easily, simply because now so many people earn a living from it. We need to be vigilant.”
The Telegraph says that NCHIs will be replaced with what officials are calling a new “common sense” system, where fewer, more serious incidents will be recorded. The new system is, of course, also bound to be abused.
That is, if the current one is abolished at all.
Indeed, the ‘Fair Cop’ campaign group questioned whether the police will “just quietly keep on recording ‘crimes’ that they don’t tell us about,” adding:
It’s been a long, hard road! But don’t think it’s over yet. The Hate Crimes industry has created a lot of jobs and a lot of people who still believe in it. It won’t go quietly.
This is certainly one to keep a keen eye on.
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