Anti-social behaviour policy statement 2024-27 - Our responsibilities

Everyone has the right to live without fear and harassment and so it is important that everyone reports a hate crime or incident. This is whether they have been a victim, a witness or you are reporting on behalf of someone else, for example a friend, family member or for one of your employees at work. We all have a duty to keep our community and workplace safe and unless we know what is happening, we can’t do anything about it. Reporting does make a difference and can stop it happening to someone else. Reporting will also help us and the Police to understand the level of hate crime and incidents in our local area and improve the way we respond to them.

We will:

• work with partner agencies to raise the profile of hate crime in Norwich
• work with Police and the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner to make sure the right strategies are in place to respond to hate crime and incidents and community tension
• promote third party reporting services
• work with schools and youth organisations on hate crime training
• work with community organisations on tackling hate crime and the causes of hate crime.