It’s National Hate Crime Awareness Week (NHCAW) running from 13th – 20th October 2018 and Haringey Police and Haringey Council are working together to raise awareness of hate crime, how to report it and why this is so important.
To mark the week Haringey Police and Haringey Council have worked alongside Rise Projects, and Wise Thoughts to help organise two separate panel discussions – both will be open to the public.
Throughout the week Haringey Police’s Dedicated Ward Officers will be visiting places of worship and other cultural centres within their local communities to build ties and trust. Meanwhile, Haringey Police’s own hate crime and domestic violence investigation specialists, the Community Safety Unit, will be conducting their own programme of visits (schedule available on request). Additionally, Haringey Safer Schools’ officers will be delivering hate crime-focused lessons in many of the secondary schools across the borough over the coming weeks.
Inspector Karl Rogers, heading up Haringey Police’s Community, Youth and Engagement Team said “Haringey Police and Council are taking the opportunity to engage with all communities during National Hate Crime Awareness Week with a strong message that Hate Crime will not be tolerated! We also want to put the challenge back to our communities to ask what they can pledge that could help to make a difference to improving community cohesion.”
Haringey Council has organised hate crime awareness workshops at Haringey Sixth Form College with ‘Stand Up! Education Against Discrimination’ and will be running an event linked to NHCAW at Campsbourne primary school on 7th November to celebrate their completion of a hate crime project. There will also be displays up across all Haringey’s libraries with information on hate crime and how to report it.
Cllr Mark Blake, Cabinet Member for Communities, Safety and Engagement, said: “Haringey’s diversity is one of its great strengths and is something to be celebrated. There is no place for hate crime against any group in our borough. It can have lasting impacts and affects the daily lives of our communities. No one should be attacked or harassed for who they are – Haringey Council is committed to challenging intolerance and working with partners to support victims.”
The police and council are urging residents to recognise and report hate crime. Report it by phoning 101, using the metropolitan police website, or contacting @metcc on twitter.
