Police ‘Hate Incident’ Guidance Interfered With Freedom of Expression, UK Court Rules

Police ‘Hate Incident’ Guidance Interfered With Freedom of Expression, UK Court Rules
Former police officer Harry Miller speaks to the media outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Dec. 20, 2021. Dominic Lipinski/PA
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The police body in England and Wales’s guidance on recording non-crime “hate incidents” has interfered with the right to freedom of expression, the Court of Appeal ruled on Monday.

The challenge to the guidance was brought to court by former police officer Harry Miller, who was visited by police in 2019 after his Twitter posts were reported as being transphobic by a self-described “postoperative transgender woman” identified in court documents as Mrs. B.