Hate crime

Hate crime describes when someone is victimised because of their race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

If you have experienced hate crime, you can report the incident online at True Vision, or go to your local police station and report the crime there.

Victim Support offers lots of information and support for victims of all sorts of crime – you can also request support and find out more about reporting a crime.

Other useful links

• The Safer Portsmouth Partnership – combating racial harassment is one of the city’s priorities
• Advice Portsmouth (The YOU Trust) – information about racial harassment and discrimination with advice on what you can do about it
• True Vision is a national website with information about hate crime and how to report it
• Equality & human rights commission – publicly funded, non-governmental body promoting, among other things, racial equality
• Gov.uk’s plan to address hate crime and explaining the law around discrimination
• Institute of Race Relations – for news and information on race issues in the UK and Europe

The Portsmouth racial harassment forum raises awareness of racial harassment among local agencies. The forum encourages the development of more effective policies and procedures to combat racial harassment through multi-agency collaboration. This results in a higher level of incident reporting by victims of racial harassment and in more effective action against the perpetrators of racial harassment.

To contact the racial awareness service for more information for professionals, email prhf@portsmouthcc.gov.uk or phone 023 9283 4227.