Police ordered to stop wasting time on Twitter squabbles – Evening Standard

Chief constables were accused of failing to concentrated on crimes such as murder and robbery in favour of “everyday rows”. Under current rules, forces are expected to look into acts which appear to be motivated by hostility towards people with certain characteristics including race, religion, disability or gender, that fall short of being crimes. Read More Unclear guidance has led to officers being called to people’s homes over “insults and routine arguments”, the Government said. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley PA Wire There will be no automatic wiping of the incidents from people’s records after the decision and can appear in background checks for job applications. A nine-year-old who called a primary school classmate a “retard” and two schoolgirls saying another smelt “like fish” are among some 10,000 NCHIs recorded annually. City of London Police had a hate complaint from a man claiming he’d been given a dodgy haircut. The Lithuanian said his barber was “aggressive and rough” because he spoke Russian. Essex Police dropped its case against Telegraph writer Allison Pearson for alleged incitement of racial hatred over a year-old deleted post online. Scrapping NCHIs will give officers more time to focus on their day-to-day policing, ministers hope.
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