Is the judgment due soon? (And I had no idea that NCHIs were retained for 6 years.)
But as research this month reveals, there is one certain way to stir the police into action: report a fellow citizen for saying something, or making some comment on social media, that constitutes an ‘incident’ — or a Non Crime Hate Incident (NCHI).
In the past five years, it’s now been revealed, 120,000 NCHIs have been recorded — and not one of them has been the subject of a proper probe. After all, by its nature, it is not a crime.
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However insignificant it is, the complaint will be held on the citizen’s police file for six years.
Its existence may be disclosed, for example, in an application for a visa or for a job requiring what is known as an extended disclosure and barring service (DBS) check, such as a post working with children.
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