Part of Portfolio Question Time – in the Scottish Parliament am ar 5 Mehefin 2024.
I am aware that, following concerns that I and others raised about the lawfulness of Police Scotland’s policy on recording non-crime hate incidents, it has now changed its policy to bring it into line with the Miller judgment. Police Scotland appears to have done so from 1 April, but it took it another five weeks to update its policy and tell anyone that it was changing. Only then was its website updated. Although that change is welcome, what will happen to all the non-crime hate incidents that were recorded under the old policy, which Police Scotland has tacitly accepted was unlawful?