NCHI recorded against JKR (Northumbria Police)

[NitroNine]

If Rowling’s lawyers are doing any additional work at this time, I assume it’s to establish how on earth a police officer decided that her Foolish Law Day TwiX Thread met the threshold for recording as a NCHI:
Under the Code of Practice on the Recording and Retention of Personal Data (‘the Code’), the personal data about the subject should only be recorded where the incident:
“presents a real risk of significant harm to individuals with a particular characteristic(s) and/or a real risk that a future criminal offence may be committed against individuals or groups with a particular characteristic(s)”.

How came I to know of this? IW mouthing off on TwiX. Including repeatedly tagging the lawyer named in Imane Khelif’s case. Because what court could fail to be impressed by this pseudo-Stasi name-taking; & what lawyer wouldn’t interrogate the surrounding circumstances of i. IW’s harassment campaign & ii. what the thread ACTUALLY SAID?

I don’t think IW took legal advice before posting those tweets. Rather, IW is buoyed by their little sliver of letter:
[NAME REDACTED] states that in determining that this matter was not a crime, the second test was whether it was a Non-Crime Hate Incident. This test is clearly set out the that a Non-Crime Hate Incident (NCHI) means an incident or alleged incident which involves or is alleged to involve an act by a person which is perceived by a person other than the subject to be motivated - wholly or partly - by hostility or prejudice towards persons with a particular characteristic.
[NAME REDACTED] confirms he was satisfied that this threshold was met and as such a NCHI was recorded and as such safeguarding measures were addressed with you and a harm reduction plan was recorded with the offers of safeguarding.
I note in your original submission you requested that this matter be passed to the CPS for consideration and also that further advice is sought. As detailed above, I am satisfied with the

It’s a deeply unfunny joke that Northumbria Police mention “harm reduction” & “safeguarding” in this particular context. I do hope what was offered was based on “stop harassing the woman & she might stop replying” but that seems too sensible.

I see.

What if it's motivated by frivolity?

Then you've had it.

Doesnt Forstater make that illegal ?

So JK Rowling has been recorded as having committed a non crime?

No idea @Omlettes . I suspect the police don't know either which isn't very reassuring.

Haven't RTFT but I can't make any sense of the OP. Not the fault of @NitroNine but just the whole word spaghetti of what constitutes a NCHI is just, well, spaghetti.

Will try again later.

Wouldn't it be great if the police started focusing their efforts on people that have committed actual crimes?

Crazy talk.

Wouldn't it just.

The whole thing is an absolute embarrassment, frankly.

Mind you, Northumbria’s VAWG strategy includes everyone. Instead of acknowledging men & boys can also be victims of the crimes listed & developing a strategy specifically for them, as both groups deserve, they just get lumped in, making it meaningless for everyone. <slow handclap>
The PCC clearly has some more work to do on tackling misogyny & “championing…ethical recording and investigation management”.
Couldn’t agree more though that Northumbria has a serious issue with this:
Online abuse - there is a growing need to tackle online VAWG as well as that perpetrated in public and private. We will continue to track developments around the Online Safety Bill.

I'm personally hoping JKR has a long game here - which may involve suing any police forces issuing NCHI against her to the point that it creates a black hole in government finances so large that it forces a law change as a result.

She'd definitely do more for women and children with the money than the government does so it would be win win all around. She's already created the only place women who are traumatised by men can go for single sex rape crisis support in Edinburgh. The money spent by government on rape crisis support has been pissed away or in some cases been used for a personal crusade to further abuse women from the sounds of how they operated in the RA vs ERCC case.