Chris Philp: 'Non-crime hate incidents are a waste of time'

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The Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Philp, has urged the government to scrap non-crime hate incidents, describing them as a "waste of police time". Report by Chahalb. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well, I'm very concerned the police are wasting colossal amounts of time investigating and recording

00:06essentially trivial incidents like people having arguments online or debating the trans issue online,

00:12even children involved in playground spats. Now, that is a total waste of police time. Police

00:17should be concentrating on investigating and catching real criminals. There are also issues

00:22with free speech where the police are following up sometimes even with journalists who have been

00:27debating issues online. So we think we need to scrap non-crime hate incidents entirely. The police

00:33should focus on catching real criminals. We're going to table this as an amendment to a bill going

00:39through Parliament. I'm very disappointed to hear the Labour Party apparently are planning to vote

00:43against this, which shows they have no regard for common sense whatsoever. And they clearly don't

00:50agree that police should be concentrating on real criminals at all.

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