Some of the non-crime hate incidents also extended to children, including a nine-year-old girl who called a fellow student a “r—–”, and journalists, including one who referred to a “deaf and dumb” scooterist.
It comes as Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson, an award-winning writer, is being investigated for allegedly stirring up racial hatred with a social media post made in November last year. Pearson said officers told her that the matter was being treated as an NCHI rather than a criminal investigation.
NCHIs are intended for cases that are “clearly motivated by intentional hostility” where there is a genuine risk of significant escalation, according to Government guidance.
There were 13,200 NCHIs recorded over a year ending in June this year, according to statistics provided by the UK’s 45 police forces.
A Humberside police spokesman said the force carefully assessed each case before taking a “common-sense and proportionate approach”.