« Previous | Contents | Next »
Listen
1. Introduction
The definition of a racist incident as given by Sir William MacPherson in his Report on the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry is "any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person." This bulletin presents, for the first time, centrally collated statistics on racist incidents recorded by the eight Scottish police forces using this definition.
Any racist incident reported to the police may involve one or more victims, one or more perpetrators, and result in one or more crimes or offences being recorded. This bulletin reports details of all incidents, all crimes or offences associated with each incident, and, where possible, details of the victims and perpetrators. It is also important to note that these statistics cover only incidents reported to the police, not all racist incidents.
Central Scotland Police were unable to provide detailed data for 2003/04 (please see further explanation at 3.3). Figures for 2003/04, therefore, are for the remaining seven forces only and care must be taken when examining trends over time. Further details on the background and basis of the statistics are given in the Notes in the Annex.
Figure 1 The number of racist incidents recorded by police in Scotland 2003/04 1 to 2005/06
Footnote
1. See section 3.3 Figures for 2003/04 do not contain incidents recorded by Central Scotland police.
« Previous | Contents | Next »