Hate crime
Disability
What is a disability?
Staffordshire Police defines this as:
‘A physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long term adverse effect on a persons ability to carry out normal day to day activities’
What is a disability hate crime?
'Any incident which is perceived to be based upon prejudice towards or hatred of the victim because of their disability or so perceived by the victim or any other person'.
Help us to help you
Staffordshire Police is committed to eradicating all crimes of hate including those targeting a person who is disabled. To achieve this we need your help. Firstly we need to know and understand the scale of the problem. This means we need victims and witnesses to tell us about incidents.
Secondly, we need intelligence – information on these types of offences – so that we can develop plans to tackle problems and stamp them out.