Hate crime is taken to mean any crime where the perpetrator's prejudice against an identifiable group of people is a factor in determining who is victimised. This is a broad and inclusive definition. A victim of hate crime does not have to be a member of a minority or someone who is generally considered to be a `vulnerable' person. In fact, anyone could be a victim of a hate crime.

If anyone not just the victim, perceives an incident to be a hate incident we will treat is as such.

Warwick Central SNT, as well as the whole of the Police Force, take any hate incident very seriously. We would always encourage anyone to report hate incidents to us, and we will investigate all reports thouroughly.