A new plan to tackle hate crime in Greater Manchester has been launched. The GM Hate Crime Plan (2024-2028) aims to tackle hate crime and bring communities together over the next four years. The plan comes after Greater Manchester Police recorded 9,613 hate crimes between September 2023 and August 2024.
The plan, launched during National Hate Crime Awareness Week, will focus on education and raising awareness of hate crime, its consequences, and how to report it, while also improving support for victims. No Place for Hate flyers were handed out at the Hate Crime Plan launch (Image: Supplied) Hate crime is defined as "any criminal offences perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice, towards someone based on a personal characteristic" and in Greater Manchester, this is checked across six strands: race, religion , sexual orientation, disability, transgender identity, and alternative subcultures. At a launch event at Manchester Cathedral, partners set out how they will support the delivery of the plan and its six priorities, in neighbourhoods and communities across the city-region.
Priorities include; improving education around hate crime, prevention and early intervention towards hate crime, and bringing communities together to tackle hate crime. Other are increasing communication and awareness of hate crime and its consequences, improving the confidence to report hate crime and improving support for victims of hate crime. Kate Green,.