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Scottish Partnership Work on Hate Crime
ACPOS LGBT Reference Group Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland
www.acpos.police.uk
ACPOS LGBT Ref Group brings together: All 8 Police Forces in Scotland & British Transport Police All 3 Scottish LGBT Orgs & Scottish Transgender Alliance Gay Police Association & National Trans Police Association Local LGBT and Transgender groups where capacity exists
Quarterly meetings
Provides strategic direction, identifies training needs, develops and implements action plans, creates guidance
ACPOS Hate Crime Guidance Manual Created in partnership with National LGBT Orgs
Main Benefit: Clear good practice standard established around
which local training can then be based for consistency
Key Challenges: Hostile anti-LGBT Media Reactions “Political
Correctness Gone Mad”, “Waste of Public Money” Reaching beyond those with Equality & Diversity,
Hate Crime and LGBT Liaison roles to all front-line officers
Key Hate Crime Training Strategy Part of probationer, Detective Officer, SIO and critical
incident training
Recognition of need for variety of training methods, including community engagement
LGBT community involved in oversight of and actual delivery of police training to enhance credibility and impact of the training
Basis for ongoing, appropriate & proportionate response to hate crime is the requirement to train all police in their duty to respect, protect and promote human rights
Transgender Training DVD Created short Trans-Inclusive Policing DVD for
use in morning briefing sessions with front-line police officers
Key Challenges: Diversity of trans people filmed Managing complexity and tone
Main Benefits: Accessible training resource widely distributed Encouraged more transgender engagement
Learning from our experiences Legislation helps progress but is not essential
Minimal budgets but training resources don’t need to be “glossy” to be effective
Prioritise creating specific local expertise as slow process to improve general basic awareness of wider majority
LGBT Community Reps also need training about hate crime good practice otherwise less effective at local level, especially in regard to transphobic hate crime