Hate Crime

Islington Council is working closely with the police and other agencies to increase reporting of hate crimes and provide an appropriate response to victims. As part of this work non-police reporting sites are available to encourage reporting by victims or witnesses who may be reluctant to contact the police directly.

A hate crime is a crime or harassment motivated by hatred of another person simply because of their race, gender, colour, religion, disability, age or sexuality. Domestic violence is also classed as a hate crime.

Hate crime includes everything from minor incidents such as verbal abuse, threatening behaviour or malicious communications, right through to the most serious crimes. It can be broken down into the following types of incident:

• Disability incident - any incident which is motivated by hatred of someone on the grounds of their disability.

• Racial incident - any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person.

• Faith hate incident - any incident which is perceived to be motivated by faith or religious hatred.

• Homophobic incident - any incident which is perceived to be homophobic by the victim or any other person.

• Transphobic incident – any incident which is perceived to be motivated by hatred of someone on the grounds of their transgender or transsexuality.

• Domestic violence incident.

All incidents can be reported by the victim, or any other person who witnesses the incident and believes it to be a hate crime.

There are currently eight sites across the borough (listed below) where hate crimes can be reported. The sites serve as an initial point of contact for victims/witnesses of hate crime and trained staff/volunteers will be on hand to take reports. Where the victim/witness leaves contact details they will usually receive a response from the police within 72 hours. In an emergency always contact 999.

Hate crimes can be reported at the sites below.

General Reporting Sites:

Any hate crime incidents can be reported at these sites but the area of focus are listed by the agencies below

Muslim Welfare House (race/faith crime reporting centre)
233 Seven Sisters Road, N4 2DA
Tel: 020 7263 3071

Somali Speakers Association (race/faith crime reporting centre)
12 Barnsbury Road, N1 0HP
Tel: 020 7833 9893

Islington Outlook Centre (disability crime reporting centre)
133 St John’s Way, N19 3RQ
Tel: 020 7263 3537

London Friend (transphobic/homophobic crime reporting centre)
Monday afternoons
86 Caledonian Road, N1 9DN
Tel: 020 7833 1674 or 020 7837 3337 (7.30pm-10pm)

Lyon Street Housing Office (any hate crime reporting centre)
1 Lyon Street, Islington, N1 1DQ
Tel: 020 7527 6880 (main office number)

Islington Victim Support (any hate crime reporting centre)
1 Highbury Crescent, N5 1RN
Tel: 020 7272 0784

Domestic Violence Sites:

IMECE Turkish Speaking Women’s Group
2 Newington Green Road, N1 4RX
Tel: 0207 354 1359

Latin American Women’s Aid
The Print House, 3rd floor, 18 Ashwin Street, E8 3DL
Tel: 020 7275 0321

Islington Victim Support
1 Highbury Cresent, N5 1RN
Tel: 020 7272 0784

For more information please email the Hate Crime desk on hatecrimereports@islington.gov.uk or 020 7527 3434

To make a report please contact a reporting site directly.