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Originally Posted by peanut
'Protect free speech... not thin skin': Police told to focus on 'tackling serious crimes' and stop recording trivial online arguments as 'non-crime hate incidents'
Officers are to stop recording trivial online spats as ‘non-crime hate incidents.
Fresh guidelines say that offensive actions will only go on file when necessary.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ng-crimes.html |
Seems sensible. When it was first touted that police would be expected to get tough on internet trolls, the general consensus was that, especially as they have had their numbers cut and so don't have time to investigate burglaries etc properly, that this extra burden would be too much.
They've already said that they won't enforce the (then) new law banning smoking in cars when children are present.
The new approach to deal with it is the Online Safety Bill that will be enforced by Ofcom instead.
As this is now going through Parliament now seems a good time to let the police start to withdraw from dealing with such incidents.
Hopefully this won't mean that they will stop investigating internet crime in general as it was on the news earlier that about 40% of crime is now committed online!
I'm sure that the Governme (and the police) will be well aware that this move will also allow them to be able to say that levels of crime have gone down too
