Cleveland’s Police and Crime Commissioner Matt Storey spoke about his plans to tackle and raise awareness of Hate Crime in his area.
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00:00What I want to try and do is bring together organisations locally, the councils, my office and the police
00:06and work together to try and tackle hate crime. It's an agenda that's really important to me
00:10and it was a big part of my campaign.
00:13And what I'd like to do is make sure that we tackle hate crime in our communities, particularly after the recent riots.
00:20What I hope it will do is make people feel safer.
00:22I want to make sure that no matter who you are, you shouldn't be discriminated against
00:27and shouldn't have any prejudice against you because of your race, your gender, your sexual orientation.
00:32I want to make sure that people feel safe and that we tackle hate crime wherever we find it.
00:37Discrimination and prejudice are really offensive and appalling
00:41and it's upsetting for people who find that they are treated differently because of who they are
00:47and we need to make sure that people in Cleveland feel that they can live their lives free from that discrimination
00:54and that's something that I've wanted to do as PCC and I intend to carry it out over the next four years.
01:01Matt was elected as Police and Crime Commissioner for Cleveland in May of this year.
01:05His role is to ensure effective and efficient work is carried out by Cleveland Police
01:10and it's his responsibility to set the force's priorities in the Police and Crime Plan
01:14that represents the views of his community, which includes his commitment to tackle hate crime.
01:19Well, I think we can always do more. It's certainly a priority of mine and it'll be contained in my Police and Crime Plan
01:27so the strategy for the force will have hate crime as part of it
01:32but what I would like to see the force do more of is have dedicated officers for hate crime specifically
01:38and make sure that they focus on hate crime in a really meaningful way.
01:42I think it's really important that the force reflects the communities that it serves
01:46and it needs to look and feel like the communities that it serves as well.
01:49So the more diverse the force can be, the better it is and it'll make people feel more trusting of it
01:57and have more confidence in it as we go forward.