'7. Interim Vulnerable Persons Database
The iVPD is the national database used to record all hate crimes and hate incidents. Recording all incidents, whereby individuals are targeted based on their personal characteristics, allows for a holistic assessment of wellbeing concerns and needs. This includes influencing wider multi-agency investigation, intervention and support tailored to individual needs and preventing repeat victimisation.
The data contained within hate concerns is also used for statistical information and can be utilised by analysts to identify crime patterns, trends and as an indicator of community tensions. A hate concern must be recorded on every occasion.
For further information refer to the Interim VPD Rules, Conventions and Data Input Standards guidance and flow chart in appendix ‘E’.
Police officers and staff must ensure a hate concern is raised in relation to every hate crime or hate incident reported to police. The iVPD must contain sufficient information to allow another police officer or member of staff to conduct further enquires where necessary.
Considerations when raising an iVPD hate concernWhen creating the hate concern form the submitting officer should:
· Indicate if the report refers to an adult or child concern or youth offender.
· Highlight hate concern on the Overview page.
· When entering the nominal details, indicate if a repeat victim.
· Where the person identifies as having a disability, tick the appropriate marker in the nominal field and consider if the person is the victim of a disability prejudice or harassment.
· If the report refers to a child concern, ensure the appropriate Getting it Right For Every Child wellbeing indicators are highlighted.
· Indicate if a crime has been committed within the relevant section of the concern report. This will allow Concern Hub staff to confirm if the incident is a hate crime or hate incident.
· Highlight all appropriate hate aggravators (if more than one protected characteristic has been targeted, then multiple aggravators can be highlighted).
· If the incident relates to a hate crime, in the charge field enter only the crime which was motivated by prejudice behaviour (unless the hate concern also refers to a domestic incident.
· On most occasions the charge recorded on the crime report for the hate element of the incident will match the charge recorded on the hate concern form, however due to crime recording counting rules this may not always be possible. The hate crime charge should always be accurately recorded on the hate concern form and if different from the crime report, the rationale for the variance should be captured in the incident details field of the hate concern form.
· In the incident field, detail who perceived the incident to be hate related, why they perceived it to be so and what, if any impact there has been on them, their family or the wider community.
· If the offender is traced, mark the report as detected and create a perpetrator to the incident.
· A hate concern must be created and the police officer / staff entered as a subject of concern in all instances where the victim is a police officer or member of police staff.
· Where there is a named suspect or an unknown suspect who is identified, cautioned and charged at a later date, ensure the iVPD is updated accordingly.
It is the responsibility of the enquiry officer to ensure that all relevant information is contained within the hate concern form. Once the concern form is complete, it should be sent on to a supervising officer to ensure all relevant information is contained within the iVPD. If all local checks have been completed, the supervising officer should forward the hate concern form to the Concern Hub to be triaged.'
How long is it going to take to record each anonymous report of misgendering?