{"id":73021,"date":"2016-08-05T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=cf122e30749196d6cf2e984ae52ce77c"},"modified":"2016-08-05T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T09:05:00","slug":"news-story-solicitor-general-robert-buckland-visits-cps-north-east-to-speak-about-hate-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=73021","title":{"rendered":"News story: Solicitor General Robert Buckland visits CPS North East to speak about hate crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Statistics published earlier this month showed the Crown Prosecution Service is prosecuting more hate crimes than ever before. Between 2015\/16, CPS North East Area, covering Northumbria, Durham and Cleveland, saw one of the greatest increases in the number of completed prosecutions of homophobic and transphobic crime.<\/p>\n<p>Hate crime is defined as any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim or any other person to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person\u2019s race, religion, sexual orientation or disability as well as any crime motivated by a hostility or prejudice against a person who is transgender.<\/p>\n<p>The Solicitor General is also participating in a hate crime roundtable discussion with organisations from the local community including Senior Prosecutors, Police representatives and local Hate Crime Scrutiny Panel members.<\/p>\n<p>Solicitor General Robert Buckland said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to ensure that victims of hate crimes are confident that these offences will be investigated and prosecuted and that they are properly supported throughout this process. I encourage anyone who is a victim of hate crime to report it to the police immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government is taking action against hate crime at every level. Only a fortnight ago we released the Hate Crime Action Plan which included \u00a32.4 million in funding to provide security measures and equipment for vulnerable places of worship that need increased protection.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Solicitor General will encourage victims to report hate crimes during a visit to Crown Prosecution Service offices in Newcastle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}