Hertfordshire Constabulary launch crime-fighting app

11:00am Friday 8th February 2013 in News Photograph of the Author By Rebecca Perring, Reporter

Residents across Hertfordshire will be able to report hate crime at their fingertips as the police have launched a new smartphone App.

Report It introduced by True Vision has been designed as a quick and easy way for residents to report crime directly to Hertfordshire Constabulary.

Chief Inspector Julie Wheatley, from the police said: "It is very positive news that True Vision is keeping up with the times in introducing a smart phone App to make it even easier to report hate crimes.

"Reporting hate crime is important as it gives police a better understanding of the level of hate crime across the county, raises awareness that this form of negative behaviour towards others is unacceptable and can help to stop it happening to someone else."

Chief Inspector Wheatley added hate crime is a criminal offence and can include physical assault, people swearing of making abusive remarks, spitting or insulting gestures, people doing things that frighten, intimidate or cause distress, bullying at school, college or work or having property stolen or damaged.

The crime could be based on a person’s disability, ethnicity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, age, gender and nationality.

To download the app visit www.report-it.org.uk

Comments(4)

Mohandas says...
11:24am Fri 8 Feb 13

Anyone with their nose to the ground knows there is hell of alot of this going unreported.
To quote 'hate crime is a criminal offence and can include physical assault, people swearing of making abusive remarks, spitting or insulting gestures, people doing things that frighten, intimidate or cause distress, bullying at school, college or work '.

When you look at that list you think cor blimey and they say crime is falling. So if you happen to have this smart phone app, with any luck we should see an increase in recorded crime.

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TRT says...
12:30pm Fri 8 Feb 13

Some little git of an oik was spitting out tiny sweets at the back of mine and my sons heads one day. Their father was with his two kids, but we couldn't tell which of the two (or three) was doing this. Does this count as a hate crime? I mean, they were wearing Chelsea scarves and we weren't. Or was it because I look Jewish? Or was it because my son has a scar? Or were they / was he just a little scumbag who needs an ear clipping?

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TRT says...
12:53pm Fri 8 Feb 13

I see the "crime down" story has not been opened for comments. Dotty says
" “Watford will always be different because it is the capital of Hertfordshire.""

Well, I think it's disgusting that they moved Herts County operations to Watford without telling the people or consulting the residents. When did this happen? Someone with their finger on the pulse and without an inflated sense of self-worth can't be wrong about this kind of thing.

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MarsLander says...
2:44pm Fri 8 Feb 13

Hate crime taking centre stage again.

I can't help thinking a lot of this is so low level as to be insignificant and unworthy of police time yet the police, at least in the papers, over-react to it.

We need balance, not an app to give it greater significance than it deserves - it already has that.

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