After having arrested more than 65,000 people for the grave offense of posting memes, they’ve finally decided to stop.
Police will no longer waste time investigating petty arguments and online squabbles in a victory for freedom of speech.
Campaigners have welcomed the decision to scrap non-crime hate incidents (NCHI), which have been increasingly used in disputes involving offensive language.
Forces said the current system is ‘not fit for purpose’, with new ‘common sense’ rules freeing up officers to investigate more serious crimes, while ensuring reports from the public which may lead to genuine harm ‘get the right response’.
The shake-up will also rule out a repeat of farcical scenes when grandmother Helen Jones was spoken to at her home by police after she criticised Labour politicians online, despite officers admitting she had not committed a crime, following a Mail on Sunday investigation.
Mrs Jones last night told the Daily Mail: ‘I’m very pleased – this (change) makes complete sense.
‘The whole experience was awful for me, I was never charged with anything and the police even told me there was no crime committed, it was just someone being spiteful.’
Announcing the plans today, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said: ‘Under these reforms, forces will no longer be policing perfectly legal tweets.
‘Instead, they will be doing what they do best: patrolling our streets, catching criminals, and keeping communities safe.’
It follows a review into NCHIs by the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs’ Council, which said a new approach was needed ‘to keep individuals and communities safe while making clear that lawful free speech is not a police matter’.
It has made a series of recommendations, including a ‘triage’ system of experienced officers to filter out non-crimes, and end police involvement in lawful freedom of speech.
Forces will use a tighter definition of what is deemed an ‘incident’, focusing on calls relating to the prevention and detection of crime, protecting life and property, and maintaining public order.
…….Police forces have been ridiculed for getting involved in a series of NCHIs in recent years.
This includes the case of newspaper columnist Allison Pearson, who was visited by police at her home on Remembrance Sunday in 2024 over what the force described as ‘an alleged offence of inciting racial hatred, linked to a post on social media’.
Feminist writer and campaigner Julie Bindel was also visited at home in 2019 after someone identifying as transgender said they were offended by one of her online comments.
Police forces have been ridiculed for getting involved in a series of NCHIs in recent years.
And Father Ted creator Graham Linehan was arrested by armed police at Heathrow in September last year over online comments about transgender activists. The Met subsequently said it would no longer investigate NCHIs.
The report said in recent years ‘there have been numerous examples where the public have felt the police response to hate or hostility has been disproportionate’.
It added: ‘In today’s polarized and highly connected world, police have increasingly found themselves drawn into policing the online space and social media debates.
……..Under the new measures, all reports to police deemed to be motivated by hate or hostility that meet the new incident threshold will be recorded as antisocial behavior with a ‘prejudice qualifier’ added.
But Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: ‘This is simply a rebrand of non-crime hate incidents with a more restrictive triage process.
‘Reports are still being logged, personal data still recorded, and disclosure rules are unchanged.
‘Officers and staff will still be tied up monitoring incidents that do not meet the criminal threshold, at a cost in time and resources.
‘People want the police focused on catching criminals and keeping streets safe. Conservatives have been consistently clear – the police should get back to basics and non-crime hate incidents should be scrapped to free up police time.’
……..Former police officer Harry Miller, who set up the free speech pressure group Fair Cop, said he was ‘delighted NCHIs are going’, and described the policy as ‘one of the most useless in policing history’.
Mr Miller, who was investigated in 2019 after a stranger reported one of his tweets as ‘transphobic’ told the Mail: ‘Police have persisted with them because they have proven to be a useful tool in shutting down political opinion.
‘After a relentless seven-year campaign, Fair Cop is delighted to see the back of them.
‘Unfortunately, the ideological brains behind the scheme continues in the unelected, unaccountable quango that is the College of Policing.’
The jackboots in the UK bragged about making more than 30 arrests a day over “offensive posts” on social media and other platforms.
“Offensive”:
The wife of a conservative councilor was arrested and sent to prison for expressing anger over the murder of three girls by 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana.
A Jewish man was arrested and charged for mocking the leader of Hezbollah by holding up a cartoon for three minutes. The placard depicted Lebanese terror chief, Hasan Nasrallah, with a pager and the words “beep, beep, beep”. The imbecile cop thought it would “stir up racial hatred further”. Protesting against a violent, Islamic ideology masquerading as a ‘religion’ is going to ‘stir up racial hatred further’ against the Western society they want dead?
An American woman receiving chemotherapy for cancer in the U.K., was visited by a cop who told her that someone lodged a complaint about her social media posts. She wasn’t informed of which ones triggered the snowflake, but she stood her ground and refused to apologize.
“Hate speech” is what the government overlords say it is.
It only applies to an arbitrary protected class: i.e. trannies and violent Middle Eastern religious cults. Mention the fact that there are only two biological human genders, use the wrong ‘pronoun’, or even point out that muslims are part of a brutal extremist sect that kills infidels worldwide, and you could end up in jail.
Speak out against the muzzie and Paki rape/grooming gangs, and get targeted by law enforcement.
Freedom of speech in the UK, Germany, France, and Canada, have eroded thanks to their idiotic liberal stance on muzzie ‘migrants’. The respective governments have actually made it a crime to criticize the very murderous Islamic ‘culture’ that slaughters their citizens, refuses to assimilate and has established ‘no-go zones’ and enclaves for their Sharia-based oppression. Christians don’t get the same considerations.
Your videos could get your jailed. The director of public prosecutions of England and Wales warns that ‘sharing online material’ of riots could be an offense.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley threatened to EXTRADITE and imprison American citizens over online posts.
Good luck with that, motherfucker.
Tommy Robinson is right. It’s become an authoritarian nightmare.
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