Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System 1998

Racial Incidents
2.14 Information on racial incidents is collected
annually from all police forces by HMIC on
the basis of a common definition which
covers:
"Any incident in which it appears to the
reporting or investigating officer that the
complaint involves an element of racial
motivation; or any incident which includes an
allegation of racial motivation made by any
person" (ACPO 1985).
2.15 CPS staff gather information on cases which
the police have identified as racial incidents as
defined by the above criteria and also on those
cases which their staff consider meet the
criteria but have not been identified by the
police.
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Further research on ethnic monitoring
2.16 Following the initial research carried out on
ethnic monitoring within the police service, a
further study is being undertaken by the Home
Office covering the extension of ethnic
monitoring to other parts of the criminal
justice system.
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