Racial Harassment, and Hate Crime

Gloucester City Homes consider incidents of racial harassment, and hate crime to be very serious anti-social behaviour and will deal with these in accordance to our Anti-social Behaviour Hate Crime and Incident Policy.

We define hate crime as:

 

“any hate incident, which is perceived by the victim or any other person as being motivated by prejudice or hate.”

 

Hate crimes could be because of someone’s gender, religion, age, faith, race disability or because they are gay lesbian or transgender. 

 

If you report racial harassment or a hate crime we will deal with your case in a sensitive and understanding way.

There are a number of ways we offer support to you:

• We will work with you to ensure that you feel safe in your own home, by offering  target hardening measures such as window alarms, extra locks, letterbox covers.
• We will make a referral to support agencies to provide additional support.
• If you report offensive graffiti we will aim to remove this within 24 hours.
• If you report damage to your property as a result of a hate crime we aim to repair this within  24 hours.
  

 

In order for us to take action against a perpetrator of racial harassment or hate crime we will need evidence.  We will work with you to collect the appropriate evidence by asking you to complete incident log sheets, take photographs of any damage or graffiti, tell us if anyone has witnessed the incidents.

 

If you are suffering from racial harassment or hate crime you can report it to us by completing the online reporting form| or by contacting us|:

 

 If you are experiencing racial harassment or hate crime please report this to the Police