2025/29091 - Hate crime and football research 2002 - 2025

REQUEST

We are conducting research analyzing trends in hate crimes in relation to national football team matches in the UK. For this purpose, we require detailed hate crime data.

Please provide a dataset containing:

*         All recorded hate crimes within your force area from 2002 on up to 2025. If data for the requested timeframe is not available, please provide data for the longest possible continuous period within that range.

*         The exact date (day) on which each hate crime event occurred - it is our understanding that the publicly available dataset on https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.police.uk%2Fdata%2F&data=05%7C02%7CFOI%40gwent.police.uk%7C184e558234cb4160f64108de2770b136%7Ce46c8472ef5d4b63bc744a60db42c371%7C0%7C0%7C638991562150670105%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=a%2FwrpJuiNlsKsU%2BgItJOSQ%2Bmmy03cz6vw60pNQE4Lz0%3D&reserved=0 omits this for anonymization purposes, providing only month and year. We request the exact day to allow temporal analyses.

*         Crime type/category.

*         Location data aggregated at a level consistent with privacy regulations (e.g., by police district or ward).

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